The issue is:

• Cyberbullying is a form of bullying that takes place through the internet and is related to high number of suicides among adolescents.

My Position is:

• Cyberbullying is significantly different from traditional bullying and has a more serious impact on it's victims.

2 Arguments for my position are:

• Parents/educators or others who would intervene in bullying cases have little to no oversight of what happens online.

• Cyberbullying allows bullying to be pervasive in a victim's life. Traditional bullying stopped when the victim went home after school, now the victim goes home, only to be harassed online as well.

2 Arguments against my position are:

• Oversight by authority figures doesn't stop bullying, it just forces it to happen in less conspicuous ways.

• A cyberbullying victim can simply block bullies or turn off the computer, etc.

Arguments for my position                                                                                     Arguments against my position

Bibliography

Bauman, S., Toomey, R. B., Walker, J. L. (2013). Associations among bullying, cyberbullying, and suicide in high school students. Journal of Adolescence, Volume 36, Pages 341-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2012.12.001.

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• Bias: Does not use persuasive language, does not use sensational language, is not missing significant facts from other articles, is not in a publication/site meant to sell or advocate.

Billitteri, T. J. (2008). Cyberbullying: Are new laws needed to curb online aggression?. Retrieved from https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php? id=cqresrre2008050200&type=hitlist&num=1

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• Bias: Does not use persuasive language, does use sensational language, is missing significant facts from other articles, is not in a publication/site meant to sell or advocate.

Kowalski, R. M., Giumetti, G. W., Schroeder, A. N., & Lattanner, M. R. (2014). Bullying in the digital age: A critical review and meta-analysis of cyberbullying research among youth. Psychological Bulletin, 140(4), 1073-1137. http://dx.doi.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/10.1037/a0035618

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Kowalski, R. M., Limber, S. P. (2013). Psychological, Physical, and Academic Correlates of Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying, Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 53, Pages S13- S20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.09.018.

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• Citations inside article

• Bias: Does not use persuasive language, does not use sensational language, is not missing significant facts from other articles, is not in a publication/site meant to sell or advocate.

Ladika, S. (2018). Bullying and Cyberbullying: Are schools doing enough to protect victims?. Retrieved from https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php? id=cqresrre2018020200&type=hitlist&num=0

• Database (CQ Researcher)

• Scholarly

• Not reviewed or Refereed

• Bias: Does not use persuasive language, does use sensational language, is missing significant facts from other articles, is not in a publication/site meant to sell or advocate.