Pre-search questions and applications Chericia Avant CMC/240 11/25/2013 Heather Parker Running head: PRE-SEARCH QUESTIONS AND APPLICATIONS 1 PRE-SEARCH QUESTIONS AND APPLICATIONS 2 Pre-search questions and applications Ethnicity In order to avoid giving biased information regarding this topic to the public, examining of one’s cultural assumptions is very crucial and also understanding of people view regarding the topic. Several questions are worthwhile considering before embarking on the research:  What actually is ethnicity and what makes an ethnic group?  What do you as an individual term ethnicity to be?  What do the public consider ethnicity to be?  What does the government or the constitution term ethnicity to be?  Do you as individual make ethnic jokes? Or behave differently towards different ethnic groups? Information about ethnicity can be obtained from areas such as books documenting its origin and how it is spread, from newspapers, daily interactions of people of different ethnicities, work places, schools, churches, journals, articles and media among others (Yinger, 1994) Find and list 3 or 4 sources for Bullying in school (physical, cyber, laws, or role of schools of parents)... Bullying is all about the exploitation of power. Cyber bullying is a whole society’s issue, in schools, neighborhood and at home among others (Kowalski, Limber & Agatston, 2012). Students who bully others face-to-face are also the ones whom bully others online. The cyber bullying in schools can be facilitated through:  Mobile phones  E-mails  Social networking sites Credibility of the sources The sources for my project topic have a high level of accuracy since first-hand information is obtained through the media and also direct observation. The audience involved here are all people of ethnic backgrounds and thus the proper audience is addressed. The sources used here are also credible in that they all have the authority to touch about the topic agenda though acquiring such sources such as books, magazines and journals can not only be time consuming but can also require a lot of money. For the bullying, the proper audience may not be addressed as it not only involves students and the authority of accessing such message be barred since it is rather difficult to track individual phones or emails (Salkind, 2012) Follow-up question After reading the sources the following questions are of importance:  What form of information does one need to retrieve from such a source?  How can one get information from sources where there is limited authority?  What are the implications of getting information from personalized sources?  What important keywords can be used to emphasize specific keywords of the topics?  Does one have enough content for the topic? References Kowalski, R. M., Limber, S., & Agatston, P. W. (2012). Cyber bullying: Bullying in the digital age. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Yinger, J. M. (19.

1. Pre-search questions and applications
Chericia Avant
CMC/240
11/25/2013
Heather Parker
Running head: PRE-SEARCH QUESTIONS AND
APPLICATIONS
1
PRE-SEARCH QUESTIONS AND APPLICATIONS
2
Pre-search questions and applications
Ethnicity
In order to avoid giving biased information regarding this
topic to the public, examining of one’s cultural assumptions is
very crucial and also understanding of people view regarding
the topic. Several questions are worthwhile considering before
embarking on the research:
What actually is ethnicity and what makes an ethnic
group?
What do you as an individual term ethnicity to be?
What do the public consider ethnicity to be?
What does the government or the constitution term
ethnicity to be?

2. Do you as individual make ethnic jokes? Or behave
differently towards different ethnic groups?
Information about ethnicity can be obtained from areas such
as books documenting its origin and how it is spread, from
newspapers, daily interactions of people of different ethnicities,
work places, schools, churches, journals, articles and media
among others (Yinger, 1994)
Find and list 3 or 4 sources for Bullying in school (physical,
cyber, laws, or role of schools of parents)...
Bullying is all about the exploitation of power. Cyber bullying
is a whole society’s issue, in schools, neighborhood and at
home among others (Kowalski, Limber & Agatston, 2012).
Students who bully others face-to-face are also the ones whom
bully others online. The cyber bullying in schools can be
facilitated through:
Mobile phones
E-mails
Social networking sites
Credibility of the sources
The sources for my project topic have a high level of
accuracy since first-hand information is obtained through the
media and also direct observation. The audience involved here
are all people of ethnic backgrounds and thus the proper
audience is addressed. The sources used here are also credible
in that they all have the authority to touch about the topic
agenda though acquiring such sources such as books, magazines
and journals can not only be time consuming but can also
require a lot of money. For the bullying, the proper audience
may not be addressed as it not only involves students and the
authority of accessing such message be barred since it is rather
difficult to track individual phones or emails (Salkind, 2012)
Follow-up question
After reading the sources the following questions are of
importance:
What form of information does one need to retrieve from
such a source?

3. How can one get information from sources where there is
limited authority?
What are the implications of getting information from
personalized sources?
What important keywords can be used to emphasize
specific keywords of the topics?
Does one have enough content for the topic?
References
Kowalski, R. M., Limber, S., & Agatston, P. W. (2012). Cyber
bullying: Bullying in the digital age. Chichester, West Sussex,
UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Yinger, J. M. (1994). Ethnic diversity: Source of strength?
Source of conflict? Albany, N.Y: State University of New York
Press.
Salkind, N. J. (2012). 100 questions (and answers) about
research methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.