A literature review gives you the opportunity to pause for the synthesis, both for yourself and for your audience. Note that a synthesis is different than a summary. In a synthesis, you should organize your paragraphs by topic and not by source, and—in addition to giving the reader an idea of what the source is about—a synthesis should accurately connect the relevant and significant concepts from your texts. We’ll go over how to do that more in class. 

Source ATopic A

Source B . . . Topic B