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Title of the Source	Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers
Context Who wrote it? What kind of source is it? When was it written? Where was it published? Why was it written?	By Jan Hoffman, a features reporter with long-time focus on adolescents, for The New York Times. Newspaper (The New York Times) May 27, 2015 Was published in The New York Times newspaper. It was written to raise awareness about a reason uptick of students with anxiety in college. It also mentions where it they can get help.
Summary	Hoffman states that there has been a recent increase of students that have been treated by counseling for anxiety. In his article Hoffman shows the different types of anxiety that they suffer from during the college years. Some examples of the several disorders of anxiety are the social anxiety and agoraphobia. One of the arguments that is presented to support the fact that there has been an anxiety uptick is that anxiety cases have surpassed depression cases, resulting in the most common mental health nowadays in college students. According to a survey from the American College Health Association, one in six students has been diagnosed with or treated for anxiety. Hoffman also shows that there is a connection between mental health and academic success because the counseling in students was very helpful to continues in school.
Details Around 3 key details/quotations with page number and an explanation of why these are important moments	“Anxiety has now surpassed depression as the most common mental health diagnosis among college students…” Explanation: This is important because it gives evidence to support the main idea of the article to show an increase of students with anxiety in college. “Nearly one in six college students has been diagnosed with or treated for anxiety within the last 12 months” Explanation: This is important because shows the proportions of the increase. “Studies have repeatedly emphasized the nexus between mental health and academic success.” Explanation: This is used to give perspective to the reader in terms of how anxiety could be dangerous for academics.
Important terms Around 3 with definitions/context	FOMO: fear of missing out, fear of missing experiences because of the same anxiety itself. Ubiquitous: cliché. Some students feel their very real struggles are shrugged off in college. Triage protocols: students with less urgent needs may wait several weeks for first appointments for treatment.
Reaction What do you think of the argument or information? How does this source relate to your other research? How does this source contribute to your understanding of the issue? What questions do you still have?	The article provides well presented and supporting evidence to deliver awareness of the increasing number of students experiencing anxiety. What contributed to understanding the problem so great among students was more than all the evidence presented and examples of students, as well as statistics. This source is related to the stress and also with depression researchers. The percentage of studies nowadays in them are very similar, meaning that students are in need of more counseling to try to treat the students diagnostic with any of them. We as a group, did not know there was such a mental health issue among college students.
Citation	Hoffman, Jan. "Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers." The New York Times. The New York Times, 27 May 2015. Web. 16 May 2017. <https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/anxious-students-strain-college-mental-health-centers/?_r=0>.

Title of the Source	Anxiety The Most Common Mental Health Diagnosis in College Students
Context Who wrote it? What kind of source is it? When was it written? Where was it published? Why was it written?	Written by Joel Brown, a staff writer at BU Today and Bostonia magazine. Newspaper (BU Today) October 2, 2016 Was published in the Boston University website. It was written to inform how anxiety can be treated.
Summary	Brown argues that there is a strong positive correlation between poor student mental health and poor academics results. According to his article, 21.9 percent of students reported that within the last 12 months anxiety had affected their academic performance. This means that many of this students received a lower grade on an exam or project, receiving an incomplete or dropping a course. The author explains that anxiety can be treated with therapy, lifestyle changes, and medication when indicated. Brown gives detail explanation of what anxiety look like in a person and also provides some signs that are usual in anxious people.
Details Around 3 key details/quotations with page number and an explanation of why these are important moments	“21.9 percent of students said that within the last 12 months, anxiety had affected their academic performance” Explanation: Brown has to include this data in order to clearly portrait the profile of a student suffering from anxiety and how it affects academics. The author claims that 21.9 % of student in college are suffering from anxiety and consequently are affected academically. He explains that this students did poorly on exams, receiving an incomplete or dropping a course. These statements are essential in the article to show the correlation between anxiety and academic. “Every student feels stressed out at one time or another, especially during midterms and finals. And it’s normal for students to feel blue on occasion, too. So when do those feelings become reason for more concern?” Explanation: The author includes this information to help the reader make a clear distinction between normal school stress and mental health issue, specifically anxiety. This statement helps the reader understand that only a percentage of students suffer from anxiety, not everyone. It explains that almost everyone will have stressful times but that it does not necessarily mean that is a mental health issue. “Other warning signs are prolonged feelings of sadness or despair, excessive anxiety or panic, isolation or withdrawal from typical daily activities, thoughts of self-harm or suicide…” Explanation: This information is given to inform the reader about the different types of symptoms that anxiety can show. This piece is included to make an impact on the reader about what really happens to people who suffer from anxiety. It helps me understand some of the signs and symptoms of anxiety which in terms helps me create an image of how suffering from the issue could feel. The statement could help the reader relate to the ordeal.
Important terms Around 3 with definitions/context	Despair: sadness Isolation: withdrawal Distress: when you would want to take action to adjust your emotional functioning in response to stress
Reaction What do you think of the argument or information? How does this source relate to your other research? How does this source contribute to your understanding of the issue? What questions do you still have?	The article is very informative and very detailed. It gives a good description of what anxiety looks like and treatments that could be used. Both sources are related to studies and statistics made and also in their options and treatments of how a student with anxiety can be treated. They are related when they present the description of signs of students experiencing anxiety. With this article, the reader could possibly identify and diagnose the signs of a person who has anxiety.
Citation	Brown, Joel. "Anxiety: The Most Common Mental Health Diagnosis in College Students \| BU Today \| Boston University." BU Today. BU Today, 02 Oct. 2016. Web. 16 May 2017. <http://www.bu.edu/today/2016/college-students-anxiety-and-depression/>.