Sunday, February 12, 2012

Stress or Depression?

What type of source is it? What's the title, and who is the author? Why is it interesting? Give us a brief summary of the source, in 5-6 sentences.
As you've been researching, has your topic changed? Have you revised your inquiry question?

The source is an article.  The title is "Mental Health Problems in Childhood and Adolescence" by Tim McDougall.  It's somewhat interesting, but there are too many standpoints for my topic that I can't focus on one.  I might change it to "How (stress or depression) affects the physical health?"  The article told of problems with mental health result in more than just poor physical health.  It includes poor educational attainment,  family dysfunction, crimes, antisocial, and etc.  Emotional mental problems are increasing and widespread across the world.  It states the statistics of mental health illnesses in England.  The articles includes a table for the risk factors that cause mental disorders. 

How will narrowing your scope affect your research -and the eventual writing you'll do about this topic?  What challenges are you facing in your research? How might you address these challenges?

Narrowing my scope allows me to focus one specific topic to write about on my research.  In my research, the challenges are "Is the source reliable?", "Is this too few information?", and "Is there enough information to avoid changing to a different topics?".

1 comment:

  1. Jason, Yes, I think narrowing your question to one of the two you listed would be good. I think focusing on how mental health affects physical health is interesting. From my own experience, I could tell that my hair, skin, and nails were not healthy when I was dealing with depression 11 years ago: my hair and skin were dry and my nails were brittle. And what about those Cymbalta commercials? http://www.cymbalta.com/Pages/index.aspx?WT.seg_1=CYMBRAND&DCSext.ag=Brand%20Beta&WT.mc_ID=GGLCYMBRANDCore%20Term&WT.srch=1

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