I'll be adding a few links here over winter break to aid you revise your synthesis essays as well as help you become more well-informed about responding to the synthesis question. Here's the first: What is a Synthesis Essay ? - Bellevue College (this is a pdf file) Another general website, an introduction, but possibly useful, if not now, in future synthesis essays: Synthesis Information
Used to be a blog for AP English Language and Composition, but now has transcended beyond that.