In Topic 2, you read three articles about the role of the researcher. In Topic 3, you took this process a step further and completed the Emerging Writer Worksheet. In that assignment, you identified t

SYNTHESIS PAPER 1

Synthesis Paper

Student A. Sample

Grand Canyon University: RES-811

Dr. Charles Banaszewski

December 23, 2020

Synthesis Paper

Open with an engaging statement and follow it up with research from an outside source if possible. Provide context for the paper (Role of the Researcher) and the upcoming discussion. Identify the two themes that emerged from your analysis. Conclude the introduction with your thesis statement.

Theme One (Your Theme Title will Replace this Heading)

Open with a topic sentence that reveals the direction of your analysis. Follow it up with support from research, then provide some original commentary that demonstrates analysis surrounding the theme. Support your identified theme with evidence from each article and provide analysis of these findings to strengthen your narrative. If you elect to use sub-themes, then the initial (theme one) paragraph will include an explanation of the sub-themes that will be discussed. Important note: if you do use sub-themes, then there must be at least two sub-themes.

Sub-theme Heading #1 (goes here--OPTIONAL)

Open with a topic sentence that reveals the direction of your analysis. Discuss the sub-theme and then support with evidence from at least one of the articles that support the sub theme.

Sub-theme Heading #2 (goes here--OPTIONAL)

Open with a topic sentence that reveals the direction of your analysis. Discuss the sub-theme and then support with evidence from at least one of the articles that support the sub theme.

Theme Two (Your Theme Title will Replace this Heading)

Sub-theme Heading #1 (goes here--OPTIONAL)

Sub-theme Heading #2 (goes here--OPTIONAL)

Conclusion

Provide a conclusion that shows how you supported your thesis statement. Follow it up with some brief commentary that discusses the two themes and some evidence. Also, provide recommendations for future research.

References

The reference list should appear at the end of a paper (see the next page). It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list (unless it is a secondary source); likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text. A sample reference page is included below; this page includes examples of how to format different reference types (e.g., books, journal articles, information from a website). The examples on the following page include examples taken directly from the APA manual. The word Reference does not receive bold font.

References

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association: The official guide to APA style (7th ed.).

Baker, V. L., & Pifer, M. J. (2011). The role of relationships in the transition from doctor to

independent scholar. Studies in Continuing Education, 33(1), 5-17. doi:

10.1080/0158037X.2010.515569

Daresh, J. C. (2004). Beginning the assistant principalship: A practical guide for new school administrators. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

Herbst-Damm, K. L., & Kulik, J. A. (2005). Volunteer support, marital status, and the survival times of terminally ill patients. Health Psychology, 24, 225-229. doi:10.1037/0278-6133.24.2.225

Additional APA help:

Generally, writers should endeavor to read primary sources (original sources) and cite those rather than secondary sources (works that report on original sources). Sometimes, however, this is impossible. If you use a source that was cited in another source, name the original source in your signal phrase. List the secondary source in your reference list and include the secondary source in the parentheses. If you know the year of the original source, include it in the citation.

Johnson argued that...  (as cited in Smith, 2003, p. 102).

(Johnson, 1985, as cited in Smith, 2003, p. 102).

Name both authors in the signal phrase or in parentheses each time you cite the work. Use the word "and" between the authors' names within the text and use the ampersand in parentheses.

Research by Wegener and Petty (1994) supports...

(Wegener & Petty, 1994).

List only the first author’s name followed by “et al.” in every citation, even the first, unless doing so would create ambiguity between different sources.

(Kernis et al., 1993)

Kernis et al. (1993) suggest...

In et al., et should not be followed by a period. Only "al" should be followed by a period.

If you’re citing multiple works with similar groups of authors, and the shortened “et al” citation form of each source would be the same, you’ll need to avoid ambiguity by writing out more names. If you cited works with these authors:

Jones, Smith, Liu, Huang, and Kim (2020)

Jones, Smith, Ruiz, Wang, and Stanton (2020)

They would be cited in-text as follows to avoid ambiguity:

(Jones, Smith, Liu, et al., 2020)

(Jones, Smith, Ruiz, et al., 2020)

Since et al. is plural, it should always be a substitute for more than one name. In the case that et al. would stand in for just one author, write the author’s name instead.

In-text citations: When to use “&” or “and”

When to use “&” or “and”

--please use “and” when the authors are part of the sentence.

Part of sentence: Baker and Pifer (2011)…

Please use “&” when used at the end of citation

Part of sentence: Baker and Pifer (2011)…

In-text citation found at the end of the paraphrase statement, (Baker & Pifer, 2011).