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__**﻿Week 1 **__ During the first week Mr.Street has been explaining about what will be happening this semester during research project. He took us to the library to look through books we could start researching on. So far the Ideas I have come up with to research about are: 1.Bullying and peer pressure 2.Stress and depression 3.Marriage and divorce 4.Dyslexia

Street has been teaching us how to use wikispace. The Wikispace homepage for our class will be updated each week to remind us of what we have to get done each week. I found this helpful because we'll always know what to do when we've missed out on a lesson. . . __**Week 2 **__ This week Mr.Street has been teaching us about referencing. One thing I learnt was not to use wikipedia as my referencing as it only provides a basic background to the topic. I also Had to finalise the topic. Out of the following 4 topics I chose to do my research on Stress and depression. I had to come up with a hypothesis and start planning out what I'll be doing for this research. The hypothesis I came up with was: I also came up with 5 questions that would assist me in carrying out my research.
 * Stress leads to depression among members of our society.

We had to write up a proposal within the next couple of weeks. Mr.Street gave us a couple of sheets to help us write up the proposal. . . __**Week 3 **__ This week, we have been mainly focusing on our proposals. I think writing up a proposal is useful because it helps us organize our work which makes it much easier for us to continue our researching using the step by step proceduers written out. In my proposal I included things such as: I decided that I will start my research after I organize and plan out my proposal. I have been reading through the proposal guidelines and started on my draft. . . __**Week 4 **__ This week I was working on my proposal draft using some notes that i wrote down and using a structure sheet the teacher gave us. Hopefully I will be able to finish my draft and hand it up next week. . . __**Week 5 **__ This week I finished my proposal draft and my final copy. Therefore I have started my research on depression and stress to get some basic background. Here are some of the sites that I used: All these sites have given be some simple explanations of my 5 questions. I Have found these sites quite helpful.
 * 1) What is depression?
 * 2) How do people get depression?
 * 3) How does depression have an effect people?
 * 4) How does stress lead to depression?
 * 5) How can depression be prevented?
 * Explaination of my topic
 * The reason I chose this topic
 * What I am aiming to learn
 * My chosen capability
 * Secondary and primary resources
 * The ethical conern
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I have also been thinking of surveying high school students of years 11 and 12 and of some older adults with families. . . __**Week 6 **__ This week I have been continuing on my research and trying to come up with some survey questions. I plan on having around 5 or 6 questions for the survey and I will be making it quite simple to understand There are the survey questions I have come up with so far: I have to get these questions checked by Mr.Street and edit them if necessary. Mr.Street as arranged appointments sometime this week to do an individual interview about how we're going with our research so far and what we can improve. We will be recorded for evidence. I have also been reading through some articles. [] - This is an article by Dr.Edward.F and was written in June 2009
 * 1) Gender?
 * 2) Year level?
 * 3) What does stress mean to you?
 * 4) Do you stress out a lot?
 * 5) What would you explain is more stressful in your life? e.g. school, family, friends, work etc.
 * 6) Do you think stress leads to depression? If yes, How?
 * 7) How do you cope with any stress?
 * 8) Do you find this year more stressful than last year?

I have changed my topic into looking at depression and stress in senior students comparison to people who have left school (i.e.currently in uni and parents with kids) as it will be more helpful.

[] This article is written by Sandra.L Ayerst in 1999 and is about stress within young people.Although this article only focuses on Canadian youths.

[] This article is by Hannah Edwards, written on April 16th 2006 and focus on the stress that occurs before and during exams in senior school. . . __**Week 7 **__ I missed out on some lessons and Mr.Street's been having meetings therefore he wasn't able to check my survey questions. Meanwhile I have been thinking about interviewing the school counsellor and hopefully someone from the Beyond Blue organisation to collect more information. I need to consider some ethical issues such has asking the counsellor for permission to be recorded and letting the interviewee of the Beyond Blue organisation know what I am working on.

The interview with Mr.Street went well. He asked us some questions about what we have been doing in research project and how we were managing with it. He asked questions such as: I will be continuing with my research now. I am trying to make a brainstorming diagram or concept map on the computer so I can upload it onto wikispace. . <span style="color: #ee4efd; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">. __**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Week 8 **__ Im starting to stress a bit because the term is nearly over and I want too try and get my final draft done so that when I come back after holidays Mr.street can correct it and I'll be able to finish the final good copy. =)
 * What I am aiming for and what I want to find out?
 * Why I chose this topic
 * What have a done so far and if I am struggling
 * If I'm planning to do an interview and survey people and with whom
 * Was there anything I had to change during the research.

I really need to contact the people I'm going to interview and I need to survey some students and parents too.

**__Week 9__** This week we have been making appointments with the counseller for an interview.