Day one is done.
Many of you did a good job researching today and found several leads to quality articles that relate to your topic. Others of you squandered your time in the library, but that's okay. You can make it up to yourself and your group tomorrow.
Here's the goal of the week
After you have collected all your articles, your next step is to read them closely. At least read the parts that are most closely aligned with your project. You will need to summarized each of your articles in the format of an abstract. To do that, follow these steps from Reading Rhetorically:
- Read the text for its main points.
- Reread carefully and make a descriptive outline.
- Write out the text's thesis or main point. (Suppose you had to summarize the whole argument in one sentence.)
- Identify the text's major divisions or chunks. Each division develops one of the stages needed to make the whole main point. Typically these stages or parts might function as background review of the conversation, summary of opposing views, or sub points in support of the thesis.
- Try summarizing each part in one or two sentences.
- Now combine your summaries of the parts into a coherent whole, creating a condensed version of the text's main ideas in your own words.
You will need to do this for all the articles that you printed at the library and they are due on Friday. I will give you a more itemized description of what you need to do at each point. To cover the above six steps, you can do a combination of annotating and summarizing.
If you're still looking for resources...
Here's a list of websites that should point you in the right direction:
- California Department of Education's (CDE) Bullying Publications and Resources Page
- CDE's article "Bullying at School"
- CDE's "Sample Policy for Bullying Prevention"
- Pacer's National Bullying Prevention Center
- Are Bullies Criminals?
- Cyberbullying Research Center
- Stop Panicking about Bullies
- Cyberbullying Rarely Connected with Teen Suicide
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