Discuss your colleagues' posts and more importantly collaborate with colleagues.

Your Synthesis Paper Introduction should have three elements:

The original author’s name and the title of the work and her/his main idea or argument.
Your “new direction” or interpretative statement – thesis statement or argument.
The literature review – how anthropological understandings have changed over time.
To be complete, your introduction must have these three elements but not necessarily in the above order. Consider how your paragraph flows. It should feel natural and not like three separate statements or bullet points.

The topic for your Synthesis Paper Introduction is the same as your Synthesis Paper Topic with consideration of the Synthesis Paper New Direction you have chosen.

Copy and paste your assignment into the discussion forum. Discuss your colleagues’ posts and more importantly collaborate with colleagues. Provide tips on interesting and useful readings about their topics. Seek new ideas and new interpretations from those colleagues working on the same or similar topics.