Synthesis. Analysts typically work with hundreds of pages of previously published reports, newspaper and journal articles, notes summarizing interviews with key informants or stakeholders, copies of existing and "model" legislation., and tables of statistical series. On the basis of guidelines for triangulation, this information must be synthesized into documents ranging from a maximum of three pages (policy memoranda) to 10 to 20 pages in length (policy issue papers). Information also must be synthesized when preparing summaries of policy issue papers (executive summaries) or materials appropriate for the media (new releases).