Anu Partanen “Finland’s School Success” (pg. 999-1006) & Jonathan Kozol ““Fremont High School” (pg. 770-778)
Assignment—Draft, revise, and edit your text to produce a well-organized essay of at least 600 words and not more than 800. Your essay should be a synthesis of the following readings:
Anu Partanen “Finland’s School Success” (pg. 999-1006)
Jonathan Kozol ““Fremont High School” (pg. 770-778)
Purpose: The point of a synthesis is to infer significant relationships between the information and ideas in various sources and communicate those relationships clearly.
Your essay should go beyond summary and critique to argue a point about an important or significant relationship between sources. Your statement should contain your own original idea based on your sources.
Skills: The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to this course, first year composition, and most importantly, writing and researching across the curriculum: critical reading, critical thinking, evaluation, synthesis, and analysis.
Knowledge: This assignment will help you become familiar with synthesizing sources. A synthesis requires you to infer significant relationships between multiple sources and make an argument based on those relationships.
Task: Your essay should contain the following: an introduction, at least four body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Focus on developing each body paragraph with plenty of details and explanations to make your argument convincing. Four body paragraphs means that you need to make four points supporting your statement. Use MLA format for the essay.
