1. Writing the Synthesis Essay
What the heck does synthesis mean?

2. Evaluating Sources
Peer reviewed journals or Professor Big Brain speaks:

3. Research Questions
Before you enter a library in order to research your topic, you need a list of questions. Questions are the basis of good detective work and solid research. Appropriate questions ask you to . . .
Figure out why. . .
Discover to what extent. . .
Assess the validity of. . .
Account for the occurrence of . . .
Discern the causes of. . .
Recognize the effects of. . .
Compare and contrast. . .
Interpret the events or symbolism of . . .
High quality research questions should lead to other high quality research questions.

4. Search the site: http://udlibsearch.lib.udel.edu/
Go to Databases for high school
Click on Extended Academic ASAP
Fill in Subject Box
Search for words in: Subject Keyword or Entire document
Limit Results:
to documents with full text
to peer-reviewed publications

5. Source Cards
Title:The effect of sex and age on media selection: interaction effect and moderating role of education.(Survey)
Pub:China Media Research 
Detail:Majid A. Dehkordi, Seiichiro Yonekura and Hamidreza Yazdani. 7.1 (Jan 2011): p48(9). (5364 words) 
… communication media, as well as everyday life is evident and the increase in the use of computers in the workplace has led to the ease of electronic communications, business …

6. Owl-Purdue University mla
Basic Style for Citations of Electronic Sources (Including Online Databases)
Here are some common features you should try and find before citing electronic sources in MLA style. Not every Web page will provide all of the following information. However, collect as much of the following information as possible both for your citations and for your research notes:
Author and/or editor names (if available)
Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)
Title of the Website, project, or book in italics. (Remember that some Print publications have Web publications with slightly different names. They may, for example, include the additional information or otherwise modified information, like domain names [e.g. .com or .net].)
Any version numbers available, including revisions, posting dates, volumes, or issue numbers.
Publisher information, including the publisher name
and publishing date.
Take note of any page numbers (if available).
Date you accessed the material.
URL (if required, or for your own personal reference).

7. Now you create a source card:
Dehkordi M, Yonekura S, Yazdani H. “The effect of sex and age on media selection: interaction effect and moderating rold of education. (Survey). Pub China Media Research. 7.1 Jan (9).
Be sure to letter your source cards in the upper right

8. Notecards:
You use notecards to write information from the article. It can be:
“A quote”
Paraphrase
Summary
Cards should correspond to the source cards, so if your source card is “A” the first notecard is “A1”
Put a keyword on each notecard

9. Argumentation Create premises Support with proof
Refute your opponents best ideas
Avoid logical fallacies
This type of writing is intellectual, supported by research and facts.

10. Logical Fallacies Ad Hominem
President Obama is owned by the unions, so therefore you can’t believe what he says about this bill. (Attacking the person not the subject at hand)
Bandwagon: Everyone is buying an IPad, so you should purchase one too! People will be left out of happiness, success, etc. if they don’t join the crowd.
See the wiki for examples of several others.

11. The Debatable Thesis
Then, in an essay that synthesizes at least 3 of the sources given and 2 outside sources you find on your own for support, evaluate the most important factors that a school should consider before using certain technologies in the curriculum and instruction.
(See Wiki)

12. In-Text Citations
When you are using several sources, you cite like this:
Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).
We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has “more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change ” (“Impact of Global Warming” 6).
For particular examples remember to google Owl purdue mla

13. Works Cited Page: alphabetical, hanging indent
"Blueprint Lays Out Clear Path for Climate Action." Environmental Defense Fund. Environmental Defense Fund, 8 May Web. 24 May 2009.
Clinton, Bill. Interview by Andrew C. Revkin. “Clinton on Climate Change.” New York Times. New York Times, May Web. 25 May 2009.
Dean, Cornelia. "Executive on a Mission: Saving the Planet." New York Times. New York Times, 22 May Web. 25 May 2009.
Ebert, Roger. "An Inconvenient Truth." Rev. of An Inconvenient Truth, dir. Davis Guggenheim. Rogerebert.com. Sun-Times News Group, 2 June Web. 24 May 2009.
GlobalWarming.org. Cooler Heads Coalition, Web. 24 May 2009.