For my first project, I focused mainly on exploring the issue of cyber bullying. Because I am more aware of the problem that our society faces with cyber bullying, I want to focus on analyzing the different roles that children and their parents play
For this project, I plan on analyzing the different roles that children and their parents play. For this project, my genre will be an analysis yet it will not be reflective. Like most bullying, both parents and children and the relationship that they share with one another plays a vital role in how the child will handle it.
My audience will be the same as it was for the last projects: parents. I believe that parents often are naive with what’s going on with children until it is presented to them in a way that they understand. I also plan on trying to reach out to hopefully professionals who don’t necessarily know that much about cyber bullying.
My main purpose of my paper is to inform parents and hopefully professionals such as psychologists and therapists about the roles that both parents and children play in this new world of cyberspace. It is our jobs to protect the new generation who are essentially growing up in cyberspace.
Should I go more into detail about my proposal? Is the audience that I am trying to attract too vague? Is my topic too vague? Should I change the genre?
I like this topic on the issue. Cyberbullying has become a major issue with new advances in technology. Parents often do not realize how much discrimination and steortyping goes on in and out of school. I do not think the topic is too vague. I suggest giving several examples/scenarios. People are often interested when they can hear about an actual situation.
ReplyDeleteI think your proposal is a great start. I think this is an issue that parents do not really recognize if there is an issue. I do not think that your audience is too vague, I thinks its targeted at the people who can actually do something about. I agree with Amanda on the example and scenarios. I think people better relate to issues when they understand an issue and can relate it to their lives if at all possible.
ReplyDeleteI like your topic because it will cover an issue that has only become apparent recently - with the popularity of websites such as 'MySpace' and 'Facebook'. I think that your chosen audience is good as well. I could be wrong, but I think psychologist or even psychiatrists may already be informed on the issue depending on how up to date they are - but who knows, you could possibly teach them a thing or two with your paper. good luck.
ReplyDeleteI also think this is a great topic. I do not think it is too vague because although it is a major issue, it seems as though you already have the main issues within cyber-bullying that you want to focus on. I think you could narrow your audience down. Instead of directing your essay towards all parents, maybe just those parents that have kids in the age group which is currently being affected. Also, the parents who are planning to have children as this issue continues. I say this because this does not pertain to the parents who had kids that are now adults. Lastly, I think the genre is good. If you want to do in-depth analysis of the points in this issue then an analysis essay is a good choice.
ReplyDeleteI like this topic a lot. People that are being cyber bullied may not even realize that they are being bullied. I think you should narrow your audience to junior high to high school parents because I would thing that is the most affected area. And this is the age group where kids stop telling their parents everything.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Kids this age are being bullied for the first time at extreme levels. In junior high I first started to hear "curse" words because it was becoming "cool." Maybe make the point that if kids would not say something in person, but on the internet, then that is cyber bullying. And people love to hear about real life situations, so I think it would be effective to throw a few of those in there.
I think the topic is a very hot one especially recently because of the growth in technology now-a-days. Kids now are turning to the social networking to become popular and what not. I mean look at a prime example Tila Tequila, who first started on a myspace page. She of course, does other things, but she basically got so many hits on myspace it upped her social status. Look at her now with her own CD, book, and MTV show. Others, which made the news not too long ago, like the girls who brutally beat a so called friend while taping everything, posted it on the internet to become popular. Cyberbullying is a new and creative way to ruin lives, just as if it were the same old bullying. It still affects the person being bullied, and it still is wrong. I think it's a great topic, and I think the audience can be determined by what you are trying to do. The topic itself will attract all I think. Because aware of it or not, everyone either knows a friend, has a child, or has went through bullying before and would most probably be interested in the topic.
ReplyDeleteI really like you topic and Audience especially. I like it so much because I do not believe generations older than us really understand this concept. Cyber communication and especially cyber bulling is something that they never dealt with and foreign to many of them. I think trying to explain the cyber world and the hazards present is an interesting and even challenging task. Your topic is a type of hazard and maybe the biggest problem of all. The only thing vague about your topic is if the type of bulling. Like hard core bullying like the court case of the mother that practical made a child kill herself or just frivolous bulling. I think hardcore would be more interesting.
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