Cheyenne Mallery

Ms. McKoy

English II

10-16-12

“Academic Performance and Substance Use: Findings From a State Survey of Public High School Students”

            In this article, Cox et al argues that improving grades and the way that adolescences perform in an academic way is extremely important to parents and teachers. The authors claim that between being a kid and an adult, a teenager, comes with different and possibly unusual behavior such as emotional, physical, intellectual, and how they handle substances. Cox et al comes up with this claim by first describing their opinions and observations. Another claim that is stated is that past investigations have shown that cigarette smokers are more likely to have low academic achievement. The authors stated that in a recent survey of 12^th grade high school students, the ones who smoke on a regular basis had way lower scores than those who do not smoke.

            The authors’ purpose of writing this article is to inform parents, teachers, and students/ adolescences of the relationship of smoking and academic achievement. They used proven facts as well as observations to write this article. This article was significant to me because it pretty much stated my topic in a different way. The facts in this are right on target. Many of the words caught my eye because they are words that I have been using for my research. This article was extremely helpful because I can still use some of the statistics in my documentary.

Works Cited

Daniel R. Bender, et al. "Academic Performance And Substance Use: Findings From A State Survey Of Public High School Students." Journal Of School Health 77.3 (2007): 109-115. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Oct. 2012.