Prevention through education is one approach some middle and high school students are taking to stop cyber-bullying. Students all over the country are revolutionizing the methods of teaching fellow classmates about cyber harassment and how to prevent it with the help of a program called Teenangels.
In the article “Students take a stand against cyber-bullying” by Michelle R. Davis, the program called Teenangels is outlined. Teenangels trains middle and high school students on Internet safety, and counsels them on how to deal with and prevent cyber-bullying. These students in turn present their knowledge to classmates. Parry Aftab, founder of Teenangels and expert on cyber-bullying, is seeing students responding more positively to their classmates’ presentation rather than a school official’s direction.
The article “Students take a stand against cyber-bullying” starts with a basic informative news headline. Davis follows the headline up with a narrative lead, which sets the scene for readers to understand why students are working to prevent cyber-bullying. The narrative spans three paragraphs placing the nut-graf in the fourth paragraph. The nut-graf explains what the article’s purpose of informing the reader of the Teenangels program.
Davis further educates the reader about Teenangels with quotes from cyber-bullied students and the founder of Teenangels. She also presents statistics from the Pew Research Center and the Cyberbullying Research Center to support the first-hand accounts of bullying. The diversity in attributions allow for objectivity throughout the piece.
Throughout the article, Davis entertains and informs readers with easy to follow sentences and her story-telling ability. Her use of strong verbs helps the reader flow from one sentence to the next with ease. Although there are no bullets or subheads, the piece is organized in a way that facilitates reader comprehension. Davis wraps the article up with a short quote by a once cyber-bullied teen to leave the reader with something to ponder.
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