Discussion BoardStudent’s First Name, Middle Initial(s), Last NameInstitutional AffiliationCourse Number and NameInstructor’s Name and TitleAssignment Due DateDiscussion BoardThe student expanded the topic: “Does Virtual Reality Therapy Alleviate Symptom Distress in Oncology Patients?” from the six-source essay to the ten multi-source essays. The six-source essay utilized limited research sources. Later, the student borrowed ideas from the six-source essay to create the multi-source essay. The student synthesized different sources, which expanded the multi-sources essay. When the six-source essay is compared to the multi-source essay, it evidences various challenges the student encountered. The student integrated different sources in multiple paragraphs to explain the study's results. However, he or she experienced difficulty developing sufficient knowledge to correlate the sources. Correlation requires a comparison of the sources in an in-depth manner to determine each author’s ideas in relation to the topic area. Further, the student experienced a challenge in presenting actual statistics from each study to support the results. In the six-source essay, the student does not provide actual statistics obtained from the study to support the acquired results, which is also observed in the multi-source essay. These challenges can