Now write a synthesis! Find a website that reviews something you are interested in--cell phones, laptops, sneakers, cars, restaurants, places you want to visit, things you want to do, etc. (For example, you can use Yelp, TripAdvisor, CNet.Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes or any such website.) Choose 4 reviews.It is important that the reviews you identify areanalyzing the same item/location,but they can be from different sites.For example, if I am interested in the movieAvengers: Endgame, I will find four reviews of this movie. My reviews can come from four different sites, but they need to all be reviewing theAvengers: Endgame.

1. Copy/Paste a link or a screenshot of each review into a Word document.

2. Read each of the reviews and decide what conclusions you can draw about this item/location based on these reviews. Then, write about synthesis based on these reviews. Here are some questions to help you brainstorm:

• What are some of the things two or more of these reviews agree on?
• What are some of the things two or more disagree on?
• How does information from one review build on the information in another review?
• Does information from one review contradict the information in another review?

In your synthesis, include specific references toat least 3 of the reviewsas support for the conclusions you're making.Here's an example below. Notice how this writer combines information from 3 of the reviews to form their own conclusions about the restaurant.

Based on these reviews, I conclude that if I go to the restaurant Ole Ole for dinner, I need to be prepared for my wait time to be long. Cathybashy says in her review that she waited for over an hour to be seated, and then when she was seated it took almost 15 minutes for a waiter to come to the table. Hugobugo says in his review that he was seated quickly and his order was taken quickly, but it took over 45 minutes for the food to come. Despite the wait times, both Cathybashy. and Hugobugo agree that the food is worth the wait. Another reviewer, MaxineLetts, agrees with this. She says that the fajitas are some of the best she's ever had. It seems like it would be worth it to go to this restaurant still, based on the positive comments about the food, but wait times are something that come up consistently in the reviews

• The writer above is synthesizing the information from a few reviews. The "new" thing the writer is making is a conclusion or claim about what they learned from these reviews: that the wait time will be long. Then they support that claim (that the wait time will be long) with the texts that helped them draw these conclusions. If we imagined that we put quotes from different reviews on sticky notes (like in the video above), we'd be stating the category we created in the topic sentence and then which sticky notes belong in that category in the paragraph.