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Minimum Requirements: Two (2) sources that are on the topic of your Proposal Argument must be analyzed using the template. One source must be accessed from our library. The other source must be accessed from the open web.
Format Requirements: The report is not an essay and will instead be formatted as given in the template. You must use the template linked here: Source Evaluation Template.docx
. Please be sure to rename the file by adding your name after downloading it.
Content Structure: Each source will be presented on its own. Each analysis will be split into two sections: Citation and Analysis. The Citation section will present the citation as it would appear on an MLA Works Cited page. The Analysis section will be broken into answers to each part of the analysis: Authority, Accuracy, Bias/Purpose, Timeliness, Relevance, and Overall Evaluation. I will provide the recourses that you will have to use to do my work.
1. The two recourses : Zsila, Á., Reyes, M.E.S. Pros & cons: impacts of social media on mental health. BMC Psychol 11, 201 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01243-x
2. Primack, B. A., Shensa, A., Sidani, J. E., Whaite, E. O., Lin, L., Rosen, D., … & Miller, E. (2017). Social media use and perceived social isolation among young adults in the U.S. PLoS One, 9(6), e100146.
Also, I will provide an example from the professor of how he wants the work to be look like:
Name Professor
Reno ENG102 605
November 16, 2022
Source Evaluation
Source1
Chandra, Anita. “Mental Health Stigma.” Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Roger J. R. Levesque, Springer Science+Business Media, 2nd edition, 2018. Credo Reference, https://ezproxy.stlcc.edu/login?url=https://search… ry/sprgstv/mental_health_stigma/0?institutionId=492. Accessed 21 Oct. 2022. Authority: Who is responsible for the information? Who is the author(s)? If the author is not an expert or not listed, does the place of publication add authority? Is the author, editor, publisher a reputable authority on the subject? What are their credentials/expertise? Search other websites to verify the authority of the information. Be sure to cite this information. The author is Anita Chandra. She earned her doctorate from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has spent the time afterwards proposing public health solutions to both federal and nonfederal groups (Academy). She has been cited multiple times by various news publications such as NBC and PBS (NPR). Verifiable Accuracy: Is the piece well researched? Can the information provided be verified through their use of a form of citation or transparency about where information comes from such as clearly mentioning the author or linking to the source? Mention at least two sources and why they seem to have authority. The article clearly cites the information it references in a way that allows for the reader to research the sources used. The author uses a variety of sources from studies and research papers to support her ideas. Three of her citations include research and articles she had previously helped write with another author while the rest are from other authors and publications. One of the article’s sources is “Depictions of Mental Illness in Children’s Media” Last Name 2 by Otto F Wahl, a professor of psychology and author of books discussing stigma of mental disorders and its portrayal in media (Otto). His article discussing how children’s media portrays mental illness was published in the Journal of Mental Health. Another source is an academic research article, “Perceived stigma as a predictor of treatment discontinuation in young and older outpatients with depression” published in The American Journal of Psychiatry, a peer-reviewed, scientific journal. Bias/Purpose: Why did the author publish the information? To inform, educate, analyze, advocate, sell, or entertain? Who is the intended audience? General readers? Academic readers? Discipline specialists? What political, ideological, cultural, religious, institutional, or personal perspectives and biases are evident; does the place of publication exist as a front to promote an agenda? Her purpose for publishing this article is to analyze the effects of mental health stigma on adolescents and the current limitations of research done about those stigmas. Chandra has a history of advocating for programs that help children’s health and does so in the article by stating the need for more research into how stigma affects adolescents. Timeliness: What is the date of publication or copyright? Has it been revised or updated? Is the information presented in the work itself current or out of date for your research needs? Is the information timely for your particular topic, i.e., no recent research has been done on the topic? This publication is from 2018 making this article four years old now. The referenced sources contained in this article range from the year 1989 to 2009 making the information presented on the studied effects of stigma and mental illness dated in comparison to more recent studies. There have been recent research/studies that support the research cited in the article namely that there is a correlation between a higher rate of perceived stigma and barriers to healthcare. One article published more recently contains similar information but include that the stigma towards mentally ill children and young adults (specifically males) among their peers may have gone down although the cause cannot be exactly determined (Clark). Relevance: Does this source help answer your research question? How detailed is the information? Is it too basic for your needs? Too advanced? Have you examined a variety of sources before deciding this is the one you will use? Relevance is intermixed with all the other evaluation criteria; everything is taken into consideration when determining relevance. It does help answer my research question and some of my secondary questions. Understanding how stigma can affect children and adolescents can help in creating a solution that includes education on those stigmas. Mental health stigma is shown to be a barrier to obtaining help for individuals due to societal and familial stigmas about mental illness. Part of how to increase access to care could be to decrease the fear of seeking treatment in the first place. I have examined other sources before choosing this one and concluded that this could have useful information. Last Name 3 Overall Evaluation: At this point, do you feel this source could be considered a quality source for your research? Refer to your analysis done above to support your final judgment. This is a quality source because of the expertise of the author and the clear indicators of where she got her sources. It answers my secondary research questions and aids in answering my main question. The citations are still supported by current research but should be supplemented with newer information. The information cited comes from other authorities in psychology along with the author’s own knowledge. Source 2 “Alarm on Children’s Mental Health Has Been Ringing for Decades. Too Few Have Listened..” Issues & Controversies, Infobase, 6 Oct. 2022, icof.infobase.com/articles/QXJ0aWNsZUVkaXRvcmlhbDozOTcyNjk3fHxsVk1aNnNYNGRn SjBrWDk1YjBELTI1OGwtbHlldXQ5VkhIZ2JiSVk2QVh5OFl6UUhFdjFidlFkMV9pUkd6bzlIYlh UX3BJRlJvQzhzVEZBTlpGTmVKZXdFNzZUbkVad3ZBWXNWYlV3QllBbkg4UzJxa3pobmQta mZCcVFCYVpXMg==. Accessed 24 Oct. 2022. Authority: Who is responsible for the information? Who is the author(s)? If the author is not an expert or not listed, does the place of publication add authority? Is the author, editor, publisher a reputable authority on the subject? What are their credentials/expertise? Search other websites to verify the authority of the information. Be sure to cite this information. The author is Maurice J. Elias, a professor of clinical psychology, who works at Rutgers School of Art and Sciences (Rutgers). He also works within Rutgers’ Social-Emotional and Character Development Lab (Rutgers). The publisher is USA Today, a newspaper founded in 1982 according to the USA Today website (About USA). Verifiable Accuracy: Is the piece well researched? Can the information provided be verified through their use of a form of citation or transparency about where information comes from such as clearly mentioning the author or linking to the source? Mention at least two sources and why they seem to have authority. The article provides its sources through links on the USA Today website. Some of those links are for other USA Today articles that had previously been published. There are a few statements where the author states information that are his opinion without such as when he talks about we cannot solve the Two sources are “New HHS Study in JAMA Pediatrics Last Name 4 Shows Significant Increases in Children Diagnosed with Mental Health Conditions from 2016 to 2020”, and “Few Black men become school psychologists. Here’s why that matters”. “New HHS Study in JAMA Pediatrics Shows Significant Increases in Children Diagnosed with Mental Health Conditions from 2016 to 2020”, is a U.S Department of Human Services study published in the American Medical Association’s Journal which is an authority because of its peer-reviewed and reports on medical information and academic studies. “Few Black men become school psychologists. Here’s why that matters” is published by NPR, an authority because it’s status as a national nonprofit news outlet that while left-leaning, tries to present information accurately. Bias/Purpose: Why did the author publish the information? To inform, educate, analyze, advocate, sell, or entertain? Who is the intended audience? General readers? Academic readers? Discipline specialists? What political, ideological, cultural, religious, institutional, or personal perspectives and biases are evident; does the place of publication exist as a front to promote an agenda? He published the article to advocate for preventative measures to be taken regarding the mental health of young people instead of trying to fix the current problems that he argues do not have an immediate solution. His intended audience is general readers in addition to the readers of USA Today who, according to MediaBiasFactCheck, are mostly left-leaning. USA Today has a left-center bias and has previously published articles that use charged or emotional language to appeal to their audience alongside previously missing published inaccurate information (Media). Timeliness: What is the date of publication or copyright? Has it been revised or updated? Is the information presented in the work itself current or out of date for your research needs? Is the information timely for your particular topic, i.e., no recent research has been done on the topic? The article was published on October 6, 2022 with no revisions. It is a month old and is not currently out of date for my topic. The research and articles I found were from earlier dates so this articles is current to the issues facing mental health care access and the discussion around it. Relevance: Does this source help answer your research question? How detailed is the information? Is it too basic for your needs? Too advanced? Have you examined a variety of sources before deciding this is the one you will use? Relevance is intermixed with all the other evaluation criteria; everything is taken into consideration when determining relevance. The article does provide insight from a clinical psychology background about the importance of preventative treatment in mental health. It is too basic in comparison to other sources, even ones that are not academic papers. Overall Evaluation: At this point, do you feel this source could be considered a quality source for your research? Refer to your analysis done above to support your final judgment. Last Name 5 This source is not a quality source due to the accuracy issues of the publisher and the existence of other research that provides similar ideas with extensive sources. This source is limited in its viewpoint in treating both the current deficit in access to care and the opinion that we can only prevent future problems in access, not solve current issues. Some of the sources the author cited within the article should be considered for use in my research instead.
