Professional Documents
Culture Documents
English 102-125
Mr. Padgett
02/08/2015
how relevant this topic is to society as a whole. The source at hand is the CDC, which is a
credible source. The CDC, also referred to as the Center of Disease Control, is a government
approved agency that specializes in working in different areas of human health. The CDC is well
known and offers information about various subjects that impact daily human life.
Source 2: Chisholm, James S., and Brandie Trent. "Everything Affects Everything": Promoting
Critical Perspectives Toward Bullying with "thirteen Reasons Why". The English Journal 101.6
(2012): 7580. Web.
This source focuses on bullying more than suicide itself, even though suicide is also mentioned
numerous times. Major evidence in the article includes several ways in which bullying affects
society as a whole. It also discusses what bullying can lead to within a society and individuals.
The major values and interests at stake for the article include knowing how bullying can affect
individuals as well as how it occurs at all. The credibility and author of this source are in check
because this article comes from a journal that is known to be used when looking for credible
sources. The English Journal is well known and respected. It is also credible because it was
found through the schools database, which should show that it has undergone supervision to
ensure that the information it provides is accurate.
Source 3: Miller, sj. Speaking My Mind: Mythology of the Norm: Disrupting the Culture of
Bullying in Schools. The English Journal 101.6 (2012): 107109. Web.
This source focuses more on bullying in schools rather than the outcome that is also being
studied, which is suicide. The sources central claim is to burst the bubble that shows that
bullying within schools does not occur as often as usual. It provides evidence about how often
bullying actually DOES occur within schools. The major values of this article include the truths
that bullying does occur in schools. It also includes values that can be used through providing the
information that is needed in order to provide people with the ability to want to act and resolve
bullying from occurring within schools. This is a credible source because it also comes from The
English Journal. In addition, this is a credible source because it was published in 2012, which is
relatively valid since it occurred within the last 5 years.
Reflection: This research question is arguable because it is not known if there is a big connection
between bullying and suicide among common people. This is not an issue that is usually
discussed and it needs to be addressed. Some agreements among the sources I found included
statistics about how bullying did in fact lead to suicide. Different perspectives of the sources
affect my own by giving me both information I need that would be useful to my argument as
well as providing information that does not fully support my argument. I might need to revise my
research question to be more direct, or to just talk about bullying.