What does it mean to synthesize information? 1. Using prior knowledge and summaries to come to make an educated guess about an unfamiliar topic or issue

2. Separating out individual facts and information so that you can analyze each one and determine what it means
3. Rewriting a document in your own words so that it includes the author's thesis as well as the document's main points
4. Taking information from several different sources, putting it together, and looking at the results in a new way