Now that you’ve worked through some more thorough definitions and examples of analysis, inference, and synthesis, you will be better positioned both to recognize these strategies in the work of others and to beneficially employ them in your own thinking and writing.

In academic writing, it’s thorough, rigorously analytical work that stands out and that demonstrates credible–and credit-worthy–learning. Incorporating elements of inference and synthesis into your essays and presentations will go a long way toward strengthening your work.