Student:_Laura s___________	Date: _1, October_____________
Major Research Paper: Phase 2 EXEMPLAR
Secondary Research comes from sources that analyze your research topic. Academic journal articles are magazine articles that are printed in magazines that present the results of an academic study for specialists is a given field. In this section of your MRP, you are required to find academic journal articles (peer-reviewed) that will help you to find the answers to the thesis you have outlines. Students must complete the following tasks:
A.	Re-State your thesis from Phase 1. 
Media plays a central role in the development of mental health issues in teens; the image of “perfect” constantly being pushed on teens takes a toll.

B.	What would someone who wanted to argue against your thesis say?
Media is not to blame for the prevalence of anxiety in teens, rather parental pressures and expectations within the educational environment are the driving factors behind rising mental health issue rates. 

C.	Outline the importance of studying this issue. Why is this thesis a significant research project?
I believe that this is a very important issue to research because it does in fact affect many teens.  Society affects everyone's life day-to-day and because teens are still finding who they are and lacking self confidence the media can get to the easier than adults. The media is able to manipulate and control the way teens think and act so easily it is scary. Many teens are unable to look beyond it and fall into the terrible trap and cannot get out.

	
D.	Outline what you are trying to accomplish in your research.
I want to prove that the media is fake. Everything that is published is edited and incorrect. I would love to show all teens that they can be confident in who they are because the media is just someone sitting at a computer editing pictures. Also I want to open everyone's eyes to the negative impact that the media has today on teens. I believe that many people turn a blind eye to it. That is what I hope to accomplish through my research. 

	

E.	Re-State your three (3) sub-topics.

Media’s intention

Mental health issues

Mental health issues in teens	

F.	Generate a list of alternative search terms for each of your three (3) sub-topics.

-Behind the scenes at shoots 
-writers of media 
-modeling contract 
-photoshop
-how to edit your pictures 
-directors
-thought process behind scenes 
-hair and makeup planning
-what hair and makeup can do	
-what causes mental health issues
-can a mental health issue be non hereditary 
-what is depression
-causes of depression
-causes of bulimia 
-what happens in a bulimics brain

	
-social life of teens with mental health issues 
-pros and cons in school work 
-most common mental health issues 
-how young do teens get involved in media

G.	Develop three to five (3-5) key points for each sub-topic you have outlines using the articles you found in section E.
Sub-Topic 1
Medias influence
	Sub-Topic 2
Mental health issues 	Sub-Topic 3
Mental health issues in teens

photoshop: How pictures are edited and why 

writers influence: Do they know how their work is taken, do they think of all sides before publishing.

behind the scenes: How do the models feel, what is the directors thought process

	

how does a mental health issue start

What does a brain with a mental health issue look like 

Are mental health issues non-hereditary 	

What stimulates mental health issues 

How do teens deal with them 

are they reversible 	

H.	Create a reference page that cites all of the sources you have found. This reference page must be in proper APA-style formatting. (Please refer to the reference sheet provided with your Phase 2 package). Please have Mrs. Lloyd edit and initial a final draft of this reference page.