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Worksheet Description

The “Synthesizing Comments” worksheet provides a structured approach for students to engage with comments from various sources. It outlines a clear sequence of steps: summarizing the comments, analyzing them, critiquing, and finally, synthesizing these comments into a comprehensive understanding. The worksheet has separate sections for each step, encouraging students to methodically work through the process of integrating different viewpoints and pieces of evidence.

This worksheet aims to teach students the multi-step process of synthesis, an essential higher-order thinking skill. By summarizing, students learn to distill the main ideas; analysis helps them to understand deeper meanings; critiquing allows them to evaluate the credibility and relevance; and synthesizing challenges them to combine all insights into a cohesive narrative or argument. This skill is critical for academic research, writing, and any work requiring thoughtful consideration of diverse information.