Literature Synthesis With Disagreement
Synthesises sources into what is established, what is contested and what is merely asserted — keeping the disagreement rather than averaging it away.
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Running it, start to finish
- List every source with what it is, its date and who produced it.
- Read the contested section without trying to resolve it.
- Act on section 8 before writing anything up.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Distinguishes independent agreement from several sources citing one original study.
- Explains why sources disagree, which is usually more informative than the positions themselves.
- Separates what you can claim strongly from what is merely plausible.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Include dates and authorship. for every source. Section 6 cannot assess quality without them, and provenance often explains the disagreement in section 3.
- Do not ask it to resolve section 3. The disagreement is a finding. A synthesis that picks a winner is doing something other than synthesis.
- Read section 5 for missing perspectives. A source set assembled by search reflects what is easy to find, not what is true.
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