Week 3 : Articulation

You want to explain what your argument will be for your final project. Remember, your final project will be a persuasive essay, which means you are persuading your reader about something. Maybe, "Skateboarding is a healthier habit than internet surfing," or "The best way to prevent cancer is a healthy diet." I want you to explain how you discovered this argument through your research.

1) My argument
I want to argue that the anonymity has an effect on cyber bullying, especially verbal abuse. The anonymous online system has an impact on user's online behavior. Many teenagers makes a personal attack and speak foul language using anonymity and openness of cyberspace. I want to emphasize there is a certain relationship between anonymity and cyber bullying.

2) How I found my argument 
My first research question was, how anonymous online affect cyber bullying and adolescent language culture. This article helped me be sure that the anonymity has an impact on cyber bullying and let me know that process. As I continued researching, I could find many information which support idea that anonymity affect cyber bullying but it is difficult to find resources about adolescent language culture. So I decided to concentrate on verbal abuse that belongs to cyber bullying. This article provides me some example of verbal abuse in cyberspace and makes me realize danger of anonymity. I finally decided to write a persuasive essay about how anonymity on cyberspace has an effect on cyber bullying especially adolescent verbal abuse.

3) New research questions
I have several questions that need to be resolved.
a) How can I connect anonymity and adolescent verbal abuse?
b) What feelings of teenagers does anonymity stimulate to make foul language?
c) Why are teenagers becoming confident when there is anonymity?
I'll continue browsing the internet and looking for interesting articles and keeping track of my research with blog posts.

4) Connections to the Harvard Sampler 
This argument has connection to the Harvard Sampler, especially 'The Internet and Hieronymus Bosch: Fear, Protection, and Liberty in Cyberspace.' I think it has a certain connection with 'Liberty in Cyberspace' because the anonymity has something to do with liberty in cyberspace.