For essay #2 inquiry-based research essay, I have decided to focus on teenage and young adult mental health in the United States. What has inspired me to find further information on this topic is the idea of what signs and symptoms are being missed by people surrounded around youth and young adults such as parents, teachers, administrators, and doctors that are allowing the growing rates of mental illnesses to continue. So, my thesis statement is that everyday activities such as school and social media activity create an environment for the stigma around mental health to exist. How can these route issues be prevented or curbed to allow growth for young adults in the US? The timeline of this project is as follows: by 10/19 I will have organized my research proposal, making sure my research question is clear and complex while having a thesis that supports the purpose of my writing. By 10/22 I will have some sources from both scholarly articles and regular magazine or newspaper articles to support my research question with data and elements of the rhetorical situation. By having a model essay, which I hope to find an article that can be of a similar or same social issue to follow I will be able to organize my ideas of my research to fit my question and thesis in a professional manner. By 10/25 I am planning on having a detailed outline of my draft in terms of following a model essay of my choice to allow me to develop my research question answers in the text, and lastly by 10/27-29 having a rough draft written and revised following the outline I wrote that will have purposeful evidence in support of my thesis. A description of my audience for this research paper will be parents, adults, and people who work and are surrounded by teenagers and young adults because as many youth peers can see the signs and stigma around mental health, the issue with this recognition lies within the older generations. This will help me focus on my research purpose and propose a good and complex research question. I have two ideas for my model essay right now, both of the links are attached below. One publication is from Regis University, and the second is from UK essays in 2015.  I have not found any good newspaper or magazine articles (tier 2), but I have found 5 complex and detailed scholarly articles. One source is “The Sitmga in Adolescence Mental Health” by Craig Heflinger (2010), the second is “Socioeconomic Status and Mental Health” By Stephen Foster from the APA (2021). The third source is also from the APA, “Young Adult Mental Health: Intervention, Services and Systems” (2015), my fourth source is from Springerlink Sportsmed “An Action Plan to Address Youth Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19” by Neelofer Tayyib in 2019 and lastly the APA article on “The Mental Health of Eleite Athletes” in 2016 by Simon Rice. Overall, these sources and more tier two sources will help me write and research my research question of why are the signs of poor mental health being missed by adults surrounded by youth. 

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