Find two research articles and synthesize the two articles.

For this assignment, you are required to find two research articles and synthesize the two articles. Choose a topics related to Exercise Science

Based on your understanding of the two articles, please give a 3-4 sentence summary, 3-4 sentence similarities/differences, and 3-4 sentence synthesis of the two articles.

Please follow the format for this assignment below:

Article 1: (Summary)

Article 2: (Summary)

Article 1: (similarities/differences)

Article 2: (similarities/differences)

Synthesis of the two articles: (synthesis)

Course material

How to Synthesize

• Basic steps for synthesizing information:

• Highlight the main themes/ideas of each article

• Note which themes and ideas appear across multiple articles

• Discuss how each article deals similarly or differently with each theme

• Discuss how combining the information from all three articles can better address your research question than a single article alone

• Write your deductions from combining this information in your own words using all three articles

• Source from: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/KIN352K/litreview

Summarizing vs. Synthesizing •

While a summary is a way of concisely relating important themes and elements from a larger work or works in a condensed form, a synthesis takes the information from a variety of works and combines them together to create something new.

• Synthesis:

• “Synthesis is similar to putting a puzzle together—piecing together information to create a whole. The outcome of this synthesis might be numeric, such as in an overall rating perhaps best typified in a quantitative weight and sum strategy, or through the use of metaanalysis, or the synthesis might be textual, such as in an analytic conclusion.”

• Source from: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/KIN352K/litreview

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