ACE for Coursework Success: Synthesising Evidence and Ideas

ACE for Coursework Success is free to all Adelaide University students by coursework seeking to practise academic skills and strategies to help improve their comprehension and succeed in assignments.

This workshop focuses on skills for selecting and synthesising information for academic writing assignments.

It includes

• defining synthesising and why it is important

• strategies for selecting and organising information for synthesis

• steps to synthesising information from many sources on the same topic

• language for comparing, contrasting and integrating ideas and perspectives from multiple sources 

• how to reference synthesised information in-text: author prominent and information prominent citations 

• practice synthesising information from multiple sources

*Every ACE workshop includes interactive tasks to practise the focus skills.