I did my inquiry about cyberbullying. I used a google web browser, the BVU library, and feedly.com to find sources on cyberbullying. I originally planned to research cyberbullying but the topic was so broad and had a very large amount of resources. I decided to pinpoint my searched based on cyberbullying and mental health in adolescents to narrow down my search. Below are the different resources that I felt were credible and held valuable information for this topic.I started off by looking through different resources that were scholarly journals and articles because they are typically known to be reliable sources from people who have done much research on the specific topic. Scholarly articles are written by experts in academic or professional
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Before deciding whether I wanted to look further into each of these articles, I read through the abstract first to determine whether the information included would be useful for my search. I also continued my search with “cyberbullying and mental health in adolescents” to see if I could gain more information about this topic, but specifically pertaining to youth.After gathering several scholarly articles, I proceeded with a search in feedly.com. This time I searched for “Impact of cyberbullying on mental health”. I decided to shy away from the scholarly articles with this search to see what else I could come up with. With scholarly articles, as I mentioned above, there is typically an abstract that you can quickly read that allows you to determine if a source is what you are looking for. Most often, in other types of sources, there isn’t an abstract that can be skimmed through to make that decision. In these websites, I typically try to scroll through the entire page to read headlines and other things that pop out at me. By doing this, I can usually tell if the information presented is worth my time to read it all. I was able to find a few relevant sources in my search.One website that I found to be beneficial that did not include a scholarly article was the website
Before deciding whether I wanted to look further into each of these articles, I read through the abstract first to determine whether the information included would be useful for my search. I also continued my search with “cyberbullying and mental health in adolescents” to see if I could gain more information about this topic, but specifically pertaining to youth.After gathering several scholarly articles, I proceeded with a search in feedly.com. This time I searched for “Impact of cyberbullying on mental health”. I decided to shy away from the scholarly articles with this search to see what else I could come up with. With scholarly articles, as I mentioned above, there is typically an abstract that you can quickly read that allows you to determine if a source is what you are looking for. Most often, in other types of sources, there isn’t an abstract that can be skimmed through to make that decision. In these websites, I typically try to scroll through the entire page to read headlines and other things that pop out at me. By doing this, I can usually tell if the information presented is worth my time to read it all. I was able to find a few relevant sources in my search.One website that I found to be beneficial that did not include a scholarly article was the website