Rizz242

Bio

About me

Hello, I'm an Asian-American non-binary student with dyslexia. I prefer to go by they/them, but I'm also alright with he/him pronouns. I don't enjoy reading a lot because of my difficulties in reading and understanding words' definitions, but from time to time I draw my characters and write background stories for each one of them- from their description and personalities- to their trauma, their life story, and even what worlds and universes they live in. I used to be multilingual (in this order: Vietnamese, English, Cantonese/Chinese, and Khmer), but now I only know English. I love music, but I don't play any instruments (I wish to learn how to play the guitar). And another thing about me: I hate frosting. They're too sweet for my sweet tooth!

My Wikipedia interests

I am making use of Wikipedia for my English Composition 1 class (ENGL&101). I am not exactly sure what we will be using Wikipedia for, but from my understanding and from my professor's biography, we'll be using Wikipedia for projects and to improve our writing or thinking process about different topics or biases from different articles. I'm new to Wikipedia editing so I will probably not use this website to edit or create articles unless it is for a class assignment.

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Article Evaluation

When we hear the word mental illness and think about what type of trauma or triggers would cause it, we automatically assume physical abuse, emotional abuse, insecurities, bullying, cyberbullying, high expectations, medical issues, family problems, and vice versa. That also includes hearing about mental health and thinking about what causes mental health to increase. But what about school? Do you ever think that schools would also cause mental health to worsen? When you hear about mental health issues, do you first think about children dealing with these? Do you expect children or young adults to have mental health issues or do you think only adults can have them? Many adults, such as parents, don’t realize that schools can also cause mental health to worsen children's and young adults’ mental health over time- especially with illnesses like depression, anxiety, and stress. Schools even make things harder for people with learning disabilities, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Schools may not cause mental illness or be the leading cause of mental health- but they are the factor in causing or increasing student’s mental health. This is due to various stressors that occur in school, which include bullying, pure pressure, academic pressure, academic challenges, and vice versa. Depression and anxiety play a huge role when we talk about students’ mental health and their education. Depression is associated with many things such as low grades and lack of motivation. As for anxiety, it’s associated with students when they feel driven or pressured by work that’s necessary to succeed in school- anxiety is mainly visible when it comes to tests or an important assignment that is due the next day. This is important to note because when we try to search for information that talks about children’s mental struggles, we need to make sure they provide the correct information since this type of topic includes sensitive details about mental health and students’ lives. It’s also important to know if this article is a well-cited and reliable article to get your information when wanting to learn more about children’s mental health with education. I visited the ‘Mental Health in Education’ article on Wikipedia and found three aspects worth commenting on: is each fact cited with an appropriate and reliable source, are the citations as current as possible, and is the article itself neutral?

As the article is titled, it’s going to be mainly focused on students’ mental health in education. Looking through the article, we can already see their main sources are coming from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Parent Resource Program, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Children’s Mental Health, and vice versa. It is great that most of their resources are coming from the National Institute of Mental Health because this Institution is trustworthy for being a government institution that studies mental health conditions. Using NIMH is perfect for articles that speak about mental health- not only that it’s easy to trust since it’s coming from the government but its research has appropriate information about mental health in general that is easy to locate when going into their website. The writer also uses sources that are researched by clinics and psychologists is great. Getting information from places whose entire career and purpose is about helping mental health cases makes their evidence stronger. The only problem with this article's sources is that one of their sources’ pages is not found. The source is from the 46th governor of Florida but doesn’t have the .gov in its website link. Since this source’s page is no longer found, this would mean that this article is not up to date. It’s odd that the source's page is no longer found, yet the latest update from this article is September 27, 2023, making it harder to trust the article’s reliability on their sources. Another thing to comment on about this article’s sources is that most of the information that's coming from NIMH has mainly been about different disorder definitions, even though there are some disorders that not many readers know, they shouldn’t need to put a definition for disorders that many people already know (such as anxiety or suicide).

The next aspect to comment on is whether this article’s citations are recent or old. From the last paragraph, I have mentioned that this article’s last update was on September 27, 2023, yet one of their sources’ pages isn’t found. This is the first red flag that even though this article has been edited very recently- the page itself isn’t recent. This article was created on February 25, 2016- almost 8 years ago when this article was published. Looking through the history of this article, the most changes that have happened are misspelled words, removing and adding words, removing bots, and having some sources removed because it’s not a reliable source. The most recent edits are fixing and adding information that can help and support the pages about other common struggles, but not much editing on the article’s citations. Plus when you look at each citation and check how old they were made, most of them were dated back almost a decade ago, this is a problem since there could be dead information or new details that could be added to the topic or definition but the readers won’t know that. Due to how old the article is, how there are barely any changes or error fixes to old sources that don't work or have a page anymore, and the citations are not fresh and new, this article’s citations are not as current as it’s last update.

The last thing I will comment on about this article is whether the article itself is neutral. Are they heavily biased claims or language? Happily this article is completely neutral about its information. There are barely to no biased claims and language in the article which is a good sign- especially with articles that are supposed to be based on educational information about a student's mental health. This article only uses information that is based on facts and gathered research from health departments, schools, psychologists, and other places that heavily study mental health (with everyone). For this article to have any sort of bias would be hard to put here since this is talking about statistics on student’s mental well-being when they deal with school. Unless the writer was using their own or someone else’s life story in the article, then there shouldn’t be any sort of bias. But even if they did use their own or someone else’s story about how they struggled with mental health academically, it would be counted as a resource rather than be seen as a bias.

To sum up, this article shows many good resources that are heavily based on medical departments, places that study mental health, websites that help teach parents and other adults about different disorders, and institutes that give statistics; this article has its errors for being updated with their citations, using old sources that might have dead information or don't exist anymore in the web. Yet they do keep up with the theme of keeping this as unbiased as possible and only using statistics and facts from reliable sources. This article is well done and great for people who want to be aware more about students’ mental health when it comes to education, but it’s not recommended to use this article if you want the most accurate information or need to use it for research about a student's academic well being.