1. Describe the approach:
I. I don' think I'm clearing up any misconceptions on my topic. I'm just explaining what bullying is, some programs, another type of bullying and other things as well. My topic is pretty well known around America and everybody knows it's bad.
II. I don't believe I'm providing any new information about my topic. Like I said before, it's really well known topic. The information I have is common information some people know. For example some of the programs involved with bullying and what is cyber bullying.
III. No unknown issue here that is bringing people attention to it. However, the facts I have will tell people what we are doing about the issue, the problems and a few other stuff as well. But when we do the proposal paper, that's where I will get peoples attention about the topic.
2. My hypothesis is bullying is a major problem in America. What are we doing about this major problem in the United States.
3. What facts will convince everybody? The facts about bullies, the facts about the programs, facts about cyber bullying, facts about how schools are dealing with bullying and cyber bullying, and facts about who helps the people getting bullied.
4. I still need some facts about this topic. Those facts are how a bully picks his target, who gets bullied the most in school and everywhere else, and how has it affected America. Also, with the previous facts I already have, I still need to look into them a bit more and find a few more facts that will convince the audience that bullying is a major problem.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
Class Blog 4
After reading and summarizing the three articles, I have learned a few things about bullying. Lets start with what I have learned from my topic of bullying.
First, cyber bullying. Apparently, cyber bullying has been around for more than ten years now. Before I read the article, I thought that it was a recent type of bullying that maybe started around 2005. Another thing that I also learned was that agencies have a hard time finding who is bullying over the internet. I thought it was an easy process because they can just look at the admen name and trace it. But anything can change. Next the programs involved. After reading the article about different types of bullying programs, I didn't know there was a whole bunch of them. This tells me that they are helping kids who are getting bullied in school and not ignoring it. Last, the article about bullies. The only thing I learned is that bullies go at a different angle depending on who they are bullying. The rest is common logic.
Out of all three sources I used, I learned that bullying is still a problem in America, but isn't going unreported or being dealt with. After reading two articles, they said that there are, as I said before, programs for bullying and agencies that help out as well. But on some cases like at a school, they do go unreported and eventually something can happen to the kid being bullied. To be honest, the only information I found surprising to me was the article about the types of bullying programs are out there. After reading an article saying that it goes unreported and its a decision by an administrator weather or not to use a program, it tells us that there are programs out there that will help you if your getting bullied.
There are a few holes I have in my research that are also questions I have. First is the cyber bullying article. The questions I have are how schools deal with cyber bullying and what types of punishments do they hand down when they find out. To find these answers, I will probably research more journal articles about school bullying and see what comes up. My next questions come from the bullying programs article. They are how many schools are using these programs listed in the article and how will they motivate schools to address the problem of bullying. To find this, I will probably look somewhere else and do research on some of the programs to find my answers. Last is the information about bullying. The questions I have are do people who get bullied have a negative view of violence and the publication date. I will probably look at journals to find the view of violence question. But the publication date one, I will compare it to other information I find about bullying and see if the information is the same or close to is when it was published in 2001.
First, cyber bullying. Apparently, cyber bullying has been around for more than ten years now. Before I read the article, I thought that it was a recent type of bullying that maybe started around 2005. Another thing that I also learned was that agencies have a hard time finding who is bullying over the internet. I thought it was an easy process because they can just look at the admen name and trace it. But anything can change. Next the programs involved. After reading the article about different types of bullying programs, I didn't know there was a whole bunch of them. This tells me that they are helping kids who are getting bullied in school and not ignoring it. Last, the article about bullies. The only thing I learned is that bullies go at a different angle depending on who they are bullying. The rest is common logic.
Out of all three sources I used, I learned that bullying is still a problem in America, but isn't going unreported or being dealt with. After reading two articles, they said that there are, as I said before, programs for bullying and agencies that help out as well. But on some cases like at a school, they do go unreported and eventually something can happen to the kid being bullied. To be honest, the only information I found surprising to me was the article about the types of bullying programs are out there. After reading an article saying that it goes unreported and its a decision by an administrator weather or not to use a program, it tells us that there are programs out there that will help you if your getting bullied.
There are a few holes I have in my research that are also questions I have. First is the cyber bullying article. The questions I have are how schools deal with cyber bullying and what types of punishments do they hand down when they find out. To find these answers, I will probably research more journal articles about school bullying and see what comes up. My next questions come from the bullying programs article. They are how many schools are using these programs listed in the article and how will they motivate schools to address the problem of bullying. To find this, I will probably look somewhere else and do research on some of the programs to find my answers. Last is the information about bullying. The questions I have are do people who get bullied have a negative view of violence and the publication date. I will probably look at journals to find the view of violence question. But the publication date one, I will compare it to other information I find about bullying and see if the information is the same or close to is when it was published in 2001.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Class Blog 3
As I mentioned in the last blog post, my paper is about bullying. The research right now is going well in my standards. I'm finding some of the information on a few journals online and some in the library in a pamphlet. When I started researching, one keyword I used was bullying. That brought up a lot of stuff I can use. I had to sort through them to find ones that are useful, which I will talk about it later. A few other keywords I used were cyber and youth. All of these keywords are helpful for my research because I am finding information I can use. These are the only ones I have used so far.
There are a lot of sources for my topic of bullying. Just by typing bullying into the library search gave me more than 33,00 journals (after checking scholarly journals) to look at. Which I am using some of them right now. Going into this topic, I already knew that this was a major topic around America and that there is lots of information about bullying. So I wasn't really overwhelmed by the number of sources that came up.
The approach that some sources took were different. For example when I sorted everything out, one journal, that I might consider using, said anti-bullying programs for middle and high schools which talks about that. Another example is a journal that was focused on cyber bullying. So some of the information I'm getting is coming from different and same information about bullying.
They way I sort through the sources is first by clicking the scholarly check mark to get peer reviewed journals. Next I went to the publication date and made it from 2009-2014 to narrow it down a little. Then I went to geography and clicked USA. So far, this is how I sorted through all of my sources that came up when typing the word bullying. The criteria I used to figure out if it is useful or not is the publication date, who is it by, and who is the publisher.
Just by sorting through all of these sources, I learned that there are still lots of information about bullying that I can use and by looking at some titles, I saw that I can include some other type of bullying that I totally forgot about. That type is cyber bullying. When I thought of this topic, it slipped my mind. Now I know to look up some information about cyber bullying as well.
The approach that some sources took were different. For example when I sorted everything out, one journal, that I might consider using, said anti-bullying programs for middle and high schools which talks about that. Another example is a journal that was focused on cyber bullying. So some of the information I'm getting is coming from different and same information about bullying.
They way I sort through the sources is first by clicking the scholarly check mark to get peer reviewed journals. Next I went to the publication date and made it from 2009-2014 to narrow it down a little. Then I went to geography and clicked USA. So far, this is how I sorted through all of my sources that came up when typing the word bullying. The criteria I used to figure out if it is useful or not is the publication date, who is it by, and who is the publisher.
Just by sorting through all of these sources, I learned that there are still lots of information about bullying that I can use and by looking at some titles, I saw that I can include some other type of bullying that I totally forgot about. That type is cyber bullying. When I thought of this topic, it slipped my mind. Now I know to look up some information about cyber bullying as well.
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