This chapter examines an act of discourse synthesis in which writers constructed meaning for their own texts by reading multiple source texts. Much writing is accomplished through discourse synthesis, constructing meaning from multiple texts to produce a new, unique text. In this kind of composing, a writer is also a reader, building meaning from the texts that are read for the text that is being written. The term discourse synthesis is utilized to characterize those acts of literacy in which writers actually read extant texts for the purpose of writing their own texts and use the sources rather directly as they produce their own discourse. The discourse synthesis study is intended to provide additional insights into connections between reading and writing. For investigating discourse synthesis, two methods of data analysis designed for the study seem especially promising, the composite template and the organization measure.