Specific Purpose: to inform the audience of the effects certain parenting styles have on young children and ways to incorporate positive parenting techniques to circumvent additional psychological issues.
Thesis Statement:
Parenting styles such as authoritarian (controlling), authoritative (warm), permissive (not controlling) and uninvolved (uncaring) can have a major influence on a child’s social, cognitive, and emotional development as they continue to age.

Task: The six-source essay asks you to synthesize the arguments of six sources
• Length: Minimum of 1300 words. The instructor will give you comments on the first
draft and let you know if you need more development beyond 1300 words.
• Format: APA
• Sources: A total of six sources, all of which you will find through library searches.
Please use the same topic that you used for writing assignment #1. You will continue with
the topic you have selected and will conduct additional searches in the library databases,
hopefully focus the topic more, and determine the six or more sources to use in this essay.
o Please use only six sources. Please do not incorporate more than six sources into
this essay.