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Annotated Bibliography

Source One: Peer-reviewed article

Gini, PhD Gianluca. Bullying and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents. JAMA,

American Medical Association, 6 Aug. 2014. Accessed 19 Sept. 2017.

In the online article Bullying and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents by Gini,

PhD Gianluca, Gianluca examines youth suicide and its related causes. Gianluca states that

bullying can cause harm to many individuals including physical, social, psychological and even

educational. She continues to share that bullying rates tend to increase within certain age groups

and some cases even lead to suicides. Gianluca states that bullying is more than an inevitable

event and that it can be deathly which is why it should be such an important matter to all of

society. In addition to explaining long term effects of bullying, Gianluca adds that bullying leads

victims to having traits including poor social competence and lack of friends. This article seems

scholarly because the author doesnt rely too much on personal views and rather bases her

argument after statistics and logic. Her argument is clearly laid out and explained with valid

points and arguments. This source overall was helpful although the target audience isnt quite

what I am looking for. This author makes clear statements that are easy to comprehend and use

for my inquiry project. Also, I am targeting online bullying while this article talks about the
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ideals of bullying in general. Online bullying can be considered a branch of bullying in which I

could still use information given in this data.

Source Two: Peer reviewed website

Holladay, Jenifer. CYBERBULLYING. Proquest.com, Prakken, Jan. 2011. Accessed 20

Sept. 2017.

In this peer reviewed article, author Jenifer Holladay also addresses the issue of

cyberbullying. She opens her article with the story of a girl who committed suicide due to her

online friends. She states that cyberbullying is a New Term, Old Concept. She claims that

online bullying is way more accessible than any other form of bullying. A student can easily

write another peer a rude note and the teacher easily can send them out of the room or to the

office as where online there are few restriction and limitations to what people can write and send

to one another. This article seems very reliable in the sense that it was peer reviewed and found

off of the UNCC Atkins website. The author makes clear valid points that are statistical and

logical. I think this will help me write my inquiry project because the author makes counter

claims to bullying that I have not thought of prior to reading. She states that teens struggle with

the tendency to bully back. One moment a child may be considered a bully but once they get

home and write mean remarks to another peer, they too are considered the bully.
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Source Three: Popular source

TEDxTalks. Rethink before you type | Trisha Prabhu | TEDxTeen. YouTube, YouTube, 23

Oct. 2014. Accessed 19 Sept. 2017.

In Trisha Prahbus Ted Talk, Prabhu passionately delivers her message about

cyberbullying. Opening her deliberation with statistics of teen suicides, she captures the

audiences attention with detailed descriptions of the events that occurred. Prabhu shares her

drastic demand for change telling her audience that at least 52% of people in the US have been

cyberbullied. She continues her presentation with many valid points and statistics and even her

own social experiment. Although Prahbu Is fourteen, she lacks no credibility. Creating her own

online software to ward cyberbullying, she has won awards including the MIT Aristotle Award

and International Diana Award. Being a teen herself, prahbu may be slightly biased towards

bullying cases centered around her age group, but that does not deter me from choosing to use

her video within my inquiry project because her age group is the range that I needed to focus on.

This source will be extremely helpful in creating my inquiry project due to the large amount of

statistics. These stats will help me shape my argument that cyberbullying is real and very

prevalent in todays society.

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Source Four: Reliable website

Scheff, Sue. The Impact of Cyberbullying on Young Girls. The Huffington Post,

TheHuffingtonPost.com, 11 July 2017. Accessed 20 Sept. 2017.

In the online article The Impact of Cyberbullying on Young Girls, author Sue Scheff

ventures into the minds of young teens who battle with cyberbullying. In this article, Scheff

focuses on not only the ideals of cyberbullying and the act itself, but how to help and how to stop

the problem at the core source. Scheff targets parents and how they can help their daughters with

battling with the struggle that they tend to always hide. Scheff ends her article stating that if

parents can get the conversation about cyberbullying started that they are half way there and the

hardest part is over. The Huffington Post seems reliable in the sense that articles that are posted

have to be peer reviewed and edited. I am unsure of how reliable this article is because the author

seemed to speak from past experience mostly, only using few statistics. On the other hand, I

think the source could be helpful due to the fact that all of my data doesnt not have to be directly

based off of facts. With my discourse, I believe that it deep down is a logical issue that could be

solved with something as simple as family morals and or with traits that should be passed down

by family members including respect. I believe that targeting my audience with the practical

source is just as important as it is to prove my argument with a multitude of sources.

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