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Locate at least 3 articles through the University Library that are potential sources for bullying in school.

 

Locate a recent news story related to your topic from at least three different news aggregators (Google News, Bing News, Yahoo News, or others).

 

Write 300 words evaluating and comparing the process of using the University Library versus the news aggregators in terms of accessibility and usability. Support your claims with specific examples of the information you found.

  

Evaluate your findings using the criteria for establishing credibility from the Pre-Search Questions and Application assignment in Week Two.

 

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Pre-search questions and applications

Chericia Avant

CMC/240

11/25/2013

Heather Parker

Running head: PRE-SEARCH QUESTIONS AND APPLICATIONS

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PRE-SEARCH QUESTIONS AND APPLICATIONS

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Pre-search questions and applications

Ethnicity

In order to avoid giving biased information regarding this topic to the public, examining of one’s cultural assumptions is very crucial and also understanding of people view regarding the topic. Several questions are worthwhile considering before embarking on the research:

 What actually is ethnicity and what makes an ethnic group?

 What do you as an individual term ethnicity to be?

 What do the public consider ethnicity to be?

 What does the government or the constitution term ethnicity to be?

 Do you as individual make ethnic jokes? Or behave differently towards different ethnic groups?

Information about ethnicity can be obtained from areas such as books documenting its origin and how it is spread, from newspapers, daily interactions of people of different ethnicities, work places, schools, churches, journals, articles and media among others (Yinger, 1994)

Find and list 3 or 4 sources for Bullying in school (physical, cyber, laws, or role of schools of parents)…

Bullying is all about the exploitation of power. Cyber bullying is a whole society’s issue, in schools, neighborhood and at home among others (Kowalski, Limber & Agatston, 2012). Students who bully others face-to-face are also the ones whom bully others online. The cyber bullying in schools can be facilitated through:

 Mobile phones

 E-mails

 Social networking sites

Credibility of the sources

The sources for my project topic have a high level of accuracy since first-hand information is obtained through the media and also direct observation. The audience involved here are all people of ethnic backgrounds and thus the proper audience is addressed. The sources used here are also credible in that they all have the authority to touch about the topic agenda though acquiring such sources such as books, magazines and journals can not only be time consuming but can also require a lot of money. For the bullying, the proper audience may not be addressed as it not only involves students and the authority of accessing such message be barred since it is rather difficult to track individual phones or emails (Salkind, 2012)

Follow-up question

After reading the sources the following questions are of importance:

 What form of information does one need to retrieve from such a source?

 How can one get information from sources where there is limited authority?

 What are the implications of getting information from personalized sources?

 What important keywords can be used to emphasize specific keywords of the topics?

 Does one have enough content for the topic?

References

Kowalski, R. M., Limber, S., & Agatston, P. W. (2012). Cyber bullying: Bullying in the digital age. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

Yinger, J. M. (1994). Ethnic diversity: Source of strength? Source of conflict? Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press.

Salkind, N. J. (2012). 100 questions (and answers) about research methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.