Scholarly Article

             I found an article called “Cyberbullying: The New Era of Bullying” written by Ann Wade and Tanya Beran. I found this article on the TAMU library article database by searching “cyberbullying”. I clicked on the link that took me to the full text and there was a yellow sticky note that confirmed it was academic/ scholarly. I also knew it was scholarly because the article was in the Canadian Journal of School Psychology. The authors were both professors at the University of Calgary.

            The article is about cyberbullying and different factors of cyberbullying such as prevalence, sex and age. The authors conducted research and their findings were quite interesting. The first main point was about the prevalence of cyberbullying. The authors found according to many studies 11%-17% of students have cyberbullied someone and about 19%-29% of students have been cyberbullied. The second main point was the authors wanted to see if girls or boys were being bullied more and at what rates. Some of their research indicated that boys were more likely to be the bully and get bullied than girls. The last main point the authors looked at was the age. They found the perpetration of cyberbullying increased with age but the students of all ages were victims.

The conclusions that the authors made indicated that there should be more research done in the future to find if there is a more substantial effect of cyberbullying among boys and girls and students of different grades. The authors also believe there should be national study that targets adolescents to determine more about cyberbullying as a whole.  I think the authors did a successful job of relaying a rhetorical message by using logos. They used statistics and research to show that cyberbullying is in fact a problem and society needs to work on it as a whole.