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So dear students, in today's lesson
what I would like us to explain,

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what I would like us to agree on
is on the synthesis.

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First, what is a synthesis?

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There are different definitions
depending on your subject,

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depending on your field,
but the one we are going to be

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interested in is the synthesis
that you have to write in journalism,

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and I'm going to give you the different
steps and also I'm going to speak

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about what we expect from you.

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So what is a synthesis?

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In your field, it means that you
will be given between three documents

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that you will have to analyse and
you will have to give a global

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view of the different documents
with different points in common

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between the different documents
and the disparities between the

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different documents.

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The reason why I use the term document
because you could have some articles,

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some extracts from different books
or some cartoons or pictures.

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So this is what you will have to
exploit.

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Normally for synthesis,
the lapse of time you have is three

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hours between three hours and four
hours.

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So it by the end of this semester.

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I'm not going to ask you for a
complete work because you won't

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have the time to do a complete work,
a complete synthesis.

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Let's go through the different steps.

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The first step, the first step,
working on the document I'm sending

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you this week, you will have to
do what we call the scheming.

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The scheming, I think I explained
it in the first semester.

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It is a very brief and quick reading
of a document.

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In most cases, what we ask you
is for you to read the first or

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the first and the second sentence
of each paragraph.

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So doing this, you should have
a global view of the theme.

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Very important.

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The theme is going to be very
important.

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So you have to do it for all the
different texts.

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And normally this exercise should
take you just two minutes.

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So the first minutes will be more
dedicated to the scheming,

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which means that you have a very
quick look at all the different

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documents.

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And by doing this, normally you
should have a global view of the

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main theme of all the documents.

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This is our first starting point.

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We are going to spare a few weeks
working on just this one.

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The second step here is going to
be a more accurate reading,

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taking notes, and even summing
up some of the paragraphs for all

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the different documents.

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This is point number two.

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It consists in reading more carefully
the text, the different documents,

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analyzing the different documents,
and taking some notes about the

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main ideas contained in the different
paragraphs.

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Once you've done that,
you will have to move to step number

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three.

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And step number three consists
in organizing the different paragraphs

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and different arguments.

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You will have to think about what
the different arguments have in

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common and what are the differences
between the different documents

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and the different arguments.

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So it means that you will have,
let's say, two blocks here.

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What they have in common and what
they have as a difference.

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So it means that you will have
to reorganize the different arguments,

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which means that it is not accepted
for you to give a kind of summary

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of each document, document per
document.

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Your task is to reorganize the
different arguments and classify

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them into different groups.

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Once you've done this one,
which is step number three,

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you have to go to the writing,
which means that after step number

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three, you should have a plan and
you should start the writing.

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So this is what and then at the

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end the conclusion.

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So which means that first is analyzing
the different documents,

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then the writing, and then at the
end the introduction and at the

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very end the conclusion.

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The skimming is going to be our
first task here.

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I'm sending you some documents
and I would like you to spend very

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few minutes and try to highlight
the main points of the different

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documents.

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Try to have a global view of all
the documents and in less than,

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let's say, two minutes you should
be able to say about what the main

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topic of all this document is.

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This is your exercise for this week.

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See you next week and have a nice week.