College Students and Depression
Comp Two Assignment One and Two: College Student Depression
The goal of this assignment is for students to gain skills in evaluating and drawing from research to develop a clear argument of their own about a topic of use to a larger community.
The topic of the paper is mental/emotion depression among college students.
In writing the paper, students will need to become familiar with four pieces of research:
“Depression and College Students: Answers to College Students’ Frequently Asked Questions about Depression.” National Institute of Mental Health, NIH publication no. 11-4266. http://www.csus.edu/aba/police/documents/depression-college-students.pdf
Furr, Susan R., et al. "Suicide and Depression among College Students: A Decade Later." Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, vol. 32, no. 1, 2001, pp. 97-100. PsycARTICLES, doi: 10.1037//0735-7028.32.1.97.
http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=f85412ed-5e0f-445b-b245-fbe2b446fc6f%40sessionmgr101&hid=108&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=2001-16220-015&db=pdh
Kadison, Richard and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo. College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do about It. Jossey-Bass, 2004.
https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/asu/f/Michael_Huelsman_2006_Depression_among_college_students.pdf
Michael, Kurt D., et al. "Depression among College Students: Trends In Prevalence And Treatment Seeking." Counseling and Clinical Psychology Journal, vol. 3, no.2, 2006, pp. 60-70. Education Source. http://eds.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=10&sid=b089f805-28b1-4561-82ca-f35c9a0eafa7%40sessionmgr4009&hid=4105.
Students should discover the anticipated audiences for these materials vary from the general reader to the psychological professional. In other words, some are much more difficult to read and understand than others. The job of students is to gather whatever useful information they can gain, highlighting and notating that information in the margins of the copies students print out. Each student’s paper will need to show evidence of having read all four of these works.
Once the material is part of the student’s mental resources, the student should begin laying out three major points he or she believes are important to the topic. For instance, one student—a very intellectually vacant one—might select these points:
Depression among college students is only a problem on campuses in other countries.
Depression among college students can be ended by eating hotdogs.
Depression among college students is caused by Trump/insects from outer space/using ear buds in Professor Donahoo’s comp class.
If these are what the student thinks (if the term “thought” is at all applicable here), is that three basic takes on the topic have shaped up:
Who’s at risk?
What is the cure?
What is the cause?
This foundation will organize the successful response to this assignment. Using the “they say, I say” organizing principles, the student should write a paper that a paper that takes each of these points and develops them into “they say” paragraphs that draw on the research and “I say” paragraphs that allow the student writer to agree, disagree, or offer adjustments to the research information.
The only other things that will needs to be added are:
a brief introduction and a strong thesis that lays out why the information here matters—something such as “Drawing on research and common sense, a college student can be prepared to recognize depression in herself and others as well aid in a solution to this problem.”
a conclusion paragraph that makes the case for what the importance stressed by the thesis is important.
Length is unimportant so long as the paper meets the following criteria that will be used to evaluate it:
Does is show knowledge of the research material mentioned in this assignment?
Does is cite and acknowledge that research correctly.
Are the topic sentences clear and accurate to their respective paragraphs?
Does the paper have a “so what” conclusion?
Is the paper grammatically sound?
Does the paper follow MLA formatting for paper submission?
