'Task: The multiple-source essay asks you to synthesize the arguments of at least 10 sources 'Length: 2000-3000 words -Format: APA -Sources: a total of at least 10 sources, all of which should be from scholarly journals or credible trade journals. You should find your sources through library searches. If you cite sources from websites or popular journals, these sources should be in addition to the 10 sources you have cited from scholarly or trade journals. Topic: Please use the same topic that you used for writing assignments #1 and #2. It is recommended that you focus on or expand on the essay that you wrote for writing assignment #2. You will continue with the topic you have selected and will conduct additional searches in the library databases, hopefully, focusing on the topic more, and determining the 10 or more sources to use in this essay. Please note that this is a review of the literature on a topic. It is not a persuasive essay using sources to support a point. Rather it is an overview of the current research on a topic. Integration of Sources: At least eight sources must be cited in the body of the essay. You may cite sources in your introduction to help you define terms, and you may cite sources in your conclusion to help you direct the reader to further inquiry. However, the body of the essay should synthesize at least 8 sources. Strategies for Developing the Topic for this Essay Up to this point in the semester, you have completed an annotated bibliography on your chosen topic. You have also incorporated and synthesized six sources into writing assignment #2. The work you have completed for these assignments provides a solid foundation for writing assignment #3. In this assignment, you will synthesize the ideas of at least 10 sources in a synthesis essay, or literature review. For your annotated bibliography, you selected a topic based on your interests and, potentially, your major. You constructed a list of five references and summarized and critically analyzed them in 150-200 words each. You then completed the six-source essay and synthesized sources. Through this process, you may have seen patterns in the scholarly literature in the topic on which you conducted research. For example, consider the following examples: *You may have researched studies in criminal justice and found that there are varying opinions on how to respond to criminal behavior among youth. *-You may have researched studies in psychology and found that counseling strategies for victims of domestic abuse tend to fall into four categories. *-You may have researched articles on gerontology and found studies that answered three basic questions on how older adults respond to training for physical performance. *You may have researched articles on environmental management and found studies on climate change. You noticed that various demographic factors influence whether individuals believe in climate change and, if so, whether they believe it is caused by human activity. In the synthesis essay, you will focus your research efforts in a particular area, as a response to what you found while writing the annotated bibliography and in constructing the six-source essay. You will then conduct more research and synthesize your findings in this literature review. Please note that the annotated bibliography and the six-source essay represent a journey in your research. You might decide to disregard several of the articles you analyzed in the critical annotated bibliography or in the following essay because they do not speak to the specific area on which you have decided to write your multiple-source literature review. You might select one article that you analyzed in the critical annotated bibliography, look up the articles cited in that article, and \"snowball\" your research in that way. In other words, this process is a recursive one. You might find reasons to hone in on and narrow your topic even further after you have written the annotated bibliography. For these reasons, you are strongly encouraged to write on the same general topic on which you wrote writing assignment #2. You might focus on the topic more for writing assignment #3. Or you might expand on the topic for writing assignment #3. How to organize the multiple-source essay: You will divide the essay into categories. Each category will be labeled with a heading. For you to see this concept with a real-life example, you can access a sample synthesis or literature review from a psychology student that you can find in Week 7 Content/Resources under PSYCHSample_LitReview. The student authors her paper on the following topic: Emotional Eating: The Perpetual Cycle of MoodFood Influence. She divides her literature into the following categories, which are used as headings throughout the paper: sInfluence of Mood on Eating Behavior +Gender Differences sInfluence of Eating Behavior on Later Moods sChronic Stress Response Network Notice how she synthesizes and integrates the research into distinct categories, labeled by headings