Research Synthesis 2/13/18

Today in the beginning of class, Mr.Rivers told us to take out our notebooks or computers to start taking notes. We took notes on introductions and conclusions, he told us before we started the synthesis that we should bring with the body paragraphs so that the introductions and conclusions will be easier. For the  introductions he told us that it is important to introduce necessary nouns, which would be relevant people, relevant places, and lastly relevant things. With these three things in the introduction will give the reader a brief history and background information. To make it easier for you to understand, he broke down all of the relevant things to something simpler. For example, for relevant people you would want to research the directors, or authors to make your claim stronger. For relevant places he told us that the topic would be important to include the location and how it connects to the American life. And lastly for relevant things he said to give the ideas of the events, the terms so that the reader will be able to know what they are getting into. Also an important way to start the introduction is to have these three important things which are Artist+text+active verbs. So with that being said he gave us a useful example, "Michael Moore's, Bowling for Columbine questions the National Rifle Association's role in American fun deaths." With this being the first sentence of the introduction it is allowing the reader to know the most important things, Who, What, and where. However, you are more than welcome to include how and why. In this example, the things he includes are who what and where. (see highlighted words) Just so you know, the "American" was highlighted because it has to relate back to the American life.

After we are done going over the introduction, we then went over the conclusion and how to start it. The whole idea of the conclusion is to wrap it all up back to the main claim. You can either go about making your conclusion 50/50 meaning that you first talk about what does it proves that your analysis? And then you start to think about how does your text evolved the intro. And then you would need to look at "the Forward" and why it is important to make you argument. what is the result of your research? and it also gives you a way to start to introduce the argument you believe in.

Overall, today's class was very beneficial because it gave everyone a reason to have very good intros and conclusions. Also he said that using a random quote, or a board statement, etc are considered too simple and not really a good introduction. But anyways, you will be able to use this in your later life, when in college because you are going to need to write papers and to know the proper way to start it and end it will be helpful in the long run.