COPIED AND PASTED FROM PROMPT AND I HAVE ATTACHED A COPY OF THE PROMPT: Choose ONE of the following synthesis questions as the focus of your essay. Consider your chosen synthesis question as both the starting point and the frame for your discussion of at least two texts.
Synthesis Question 1: Given what many people believe are the potential consequences of
Climate Change, are there any areas of common ground (e.g. between proponents and
opponents) within Climate Change discourse upon which a unified way forward toward solution
might be realized?
Synthesis Question 2: Economic Justice seems like a positive thing to many people. However, it
is an issue around which swirls much discord. In other words, there is more than one answer to
questions such as what would Economic Justice realized look like? Should progress toward
Economic Justice persist? Would society/culture benefit overall from its realization? How can
resolution of what many believe is an inherently good philosophy ever become manifest, in
light of the fact that consensus (between opposing sides of the issue) seems out of grasp?
Synthesis Question 3: Some societal/cultural issues feel overwhelmingly heavyas in they
seem impossible to remedy. Guns, in a word, is one of those issues. Setting aside the task of
finding a solution to the entire challenge posed by Guns, what are some comparatively smaller,
perhaps less sexy victories that might be collectively (between pro- and anti-gun activists)
won and that might eventually lead to large scale remedy (whatever large scale remedy even
means)?
Synthesis Question 4: On its surface, an issue like Immigration could seem rather
straightforward in terms of problem and solution. There are many people, however, who see it
as a far more complicated issue than meets the eye. Why is it that the issue of Immigration
cannot seem to be satisfactorily resolvedwhy cant any compromise seem to be reached? Or
is that sentiment even accurate?
For this analysis/synthesis paper, then, you will come to terms with at least two texts (you
choose the texts) that engage a relevant (to you) societal/cultural exigency, and in so doing you
might, for instance, summarize and respond to the authors purposes and main ideas
including any associated, relevant visual texts; you will reveal and elaborate analytical
connections between your chosen texts, as well as their connections to your chosen
social/cultural exigency, by focusing on their respective rhetorical features and/or ideas; and
you will ultimately synthesize such insights into a new perspective of your own. In other words,
you will be examining a few different facets of an important societal/cultural discourse so
that you might further develop your own point of view and join that conversation. Per my prof., he wants to see summarizing; responding/including your own insights, experiences, and opinions; as well as focused and fully elaborated analyses), and you will also develop and incorporate a type of writing that is known as synthesis.
What I am asking us to do for this final 3rd Paper is to engage with varying perspectives
associated with a chosen topic, evaluate and analyze them, and, from that work, insert your
own voice into the conversation. In order to effectively accomplish this, you will all but
certainly need to engage with points of view that are antithetical to your own.
