Analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information to support your idea

In a research paper, it is important to provide ample, relevant, concrete, and persuasive evidence to support your idea. In particular, you need to synthesize information and arguments from multiple reliable sources, evaluate them fairly, and analyze them critically.

Please note that analysis, evaluation, and synthesis are critical components in the process of writing. Simple description of a fact is important, but analysis, evaluation, and synthesis give meaning to the facts and details that you provide in your paper. Just a list of facts or other people’s opinions, does not present your argument. You must explain the meaning of your facts and statistics clearly. Through careful analysis, evaluation, and synthesis you prove to your readers that you understand what the facts mean and that you are able to draw conclusions from them.

First of all, analysis is the process of dividing a whole issue into different parts so that each of them can be examined. When you analyze an issue, you may look for patterns and trends; compare and contrast two subjects or calculate statistics to offer more insights. It is important to analyze an issue from different angles.

Second, when you evaluate facts, you are ascertaining their value or meaning. You present and defend opinions by making judgments about information, validity of ideas, or quality of work based on a set of criteria. You explain to the audience how each fact fits into your argument and explain what idea or claim is supported by that fact.

Finally, to synthesize information, you are combining your observations, analyses and evaluations to form a new, complex product for readers or to propose an alternative solution to a problem. Synthesis is the process of linking all of your facts, analysis, and evaluations together to present your claim. It is not done at the end of the paper but is woven throughout the whole paper in order to present a smooth and seamless document. In other words, you need to synthesize the large amount of information you have gathered and the analysis and evaluation you have offered into a thesis statement. Therefore, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis are intrinsically linked together in the process of writing a paper.

A good research paper should finish with a good conclusion. The conclusion is where you summarize the main points of your thesis and present your own recommendations. It is where you may acknowledge the caveats that apply to your conclusion and suggest future research venues. Remember, no new information is presented in the conclusion! In the conclusion, you should wrap all ideas into a short summary so that readers can take away the main arguments and ideas.

Principles of wording, phrasing, tone, and other elements of business writing

 An outstanding paper must have good control of language, which includes effective word choice, correct tone, and superior facility with the conventions of standard written English