Word: synthesise
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Whatever the summary assignment of a course may be, it should require not only retention but synthesis as well. Simple police activity can be reserved for section quizzes that keep pace with the assigned reading, and should not take up so large a measure of the summary project. That project...
The open-book and take-home systems share the important feature of synthesis--a situation in which the student, with permission to consult his sources, must still draw together his material and produce a comprehensive essay. A pre-assigned topic assumes that, even with foreknowledge, the assignment is sufficiently difficult...
The term paper is of all these alternatives best adapted to a sustained effort on independent work. If the topic is narrow, the student must demonstrate sufficient grasp of the wider range of the course to treat intelligently one aspect of it. If the broad synthesis itself is assigned, the...
Died. Alfonso Reyes, 70, world-roaming Mexican poet (Gulf of Mexico), essayist (The Position of America) and diplomat, who delved lovingly into the history of his land without becoming insular, offered the synthesis of cultures in Mexico and South America as a possible model of harmony for the rest of...
HENRY KOERNER, 44, is one of the nation's best living painters,*but he has long worked in the shadows of two masters, first Giotto and then Cézanne. His latest work still shows their influence, yet displays a new and surer synthesis that is unmistakably Koerner'...