Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Prevalence

I found a scholarly all about cyberbullying. I found the article from the Texas A&M Library website. I determined that it was a scholarly article becasue this article comes from The Canadian Journal of School Pyschology.

This article is about cyberbullying and its prevalence among different ages and genders of kids. This data was collected by picking kids in different middle school and giving them a questonnaire. From this reseach it was determeined that being called names, having rumors apread and having another person pretend ot be them online were the top ways of cyberbullying that occurred. This was surprising to me since people seemed to be more concerned with sexual harrassment and those types of things happeneing online. It also shows that girls were more likely to have been victims or bullies than boys. This research also determined that kids in 7th grade are more likely to be a victim or a bully.
This article is very informative and well written. The author clearly knows alot about the information and the rehortic appeals mostly to logos because of the article's educational tone.

http://cjs.sagepub.com.lib-ezproxy.tamu.edu:2048/content/26/1/44.full.pdf+html

5 comments:

  1. I agree that this is shcolarly (no ads, very credible source). Also, great work breaking down the article. Good post.

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  2. I really like the topic you found and how you summarized and analyzed the article. I think you classified it right and I really liked your post!

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  3. Definitely a scholarly article. Good analysis too, I agree with the notion that the article appeals primarily to logos.

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  4. I think you did a good analysis of the article and also think the topic and point being made in it is important

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  5. This is definitely a scholarly article, and I really like the topic. It leaves me wanting to know more, which is a good thing!

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