Scientific and Technical Writing, and Books on Depression.
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, February 15th, 2012 at 09:34 PM (2654 Views)
So I've been going to school now for like, three years and only just registered into my school library system to check out some books from a campus library. And if my parents could actually see what I was checking out, I'm pretty sure they'd flip, since all of my books are about depression and treating depression.
It's my writing project for my scientific and technical writing course, actually; the main project of the class is to come up with a problem, a way to solve it, and a proposal to the person in question (in this case, the patron) to get funding for the idea and explain how it would work. My idea is basically, we have little to no advertisement or focus on the campus counseling services, and we should probably fix that.
The books themselves don't really help with my proposal, but they do give me an idea of what factors can cause depression in college students, different forms of treatment for depression, and other such things. Not much, but a starting point.
I'm hoping to pull this off. The issue is pretty personal for me; I've been severely depressed before, even suicidal, and I was one of those who was hit especially hard by Taylor Clementi's suicide, even if I didn't know him personally. So I'm doing this to try and get a good grade, but if at the end of the semester I'm able to actually propose this, or at least catch someone's eye with it and help a little bit, it would be damn near perfect.