explanatory synthesis essay

Explanatory Synthesis Essay

Due: 11:59 PM EST Saturday 19 July, 2014

The Explanatory Synthesis will require your new skills in summary and critique to choose your readings to incorporate into the essay and to form your own thesis. After reading through the pieces about Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants and how to write an Explanatory Synthesis, choose three or more of the required readings (listed below) to incorporate into your essay. The essay will be two to three pages in length and employ APA format.

Follow these guidelines to write your Explanatory Synthesis:

 The Explanatory Synthesis should be two to three pages in length and include at least three of the following articles:

o “How Does the web Make Youth Feel? Exploring the positive digital native rhetoric”

o “Digital Natives: Rise of the Social Networking Generation”

o “Digital Books for Digital Natives”

o “Debunking the Digital Natives”

o “Are Adult Educators and Learners Digital Immigrants?

o “New Technology, New Methodology: The Digital Native and Digital Immigrants Debate”

o “No More Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants”

 Include an APA title page

 Include APA in-text citations wherever you reference the text.

 Include a reference page in APA format.

 Be objective and avoid using “I”, “you”, and “we”.

Students: Be sure to read the criteria, by which your paper/project will be evaluated, before you write, and again after you write.