The links below will help you identify the various kinds or resources you may find while researching for your persuasive essay topic.
Now that you've researched both points of view of your topic and found additional background information, you are ready to establish a thesis, the main idea you're trying to persuade your audience to believe.
Based on your research, you decide that your thesis should prove that the high rate of school bullying justifies the need for all U.S. public to implement mandatory anti-bullying education programs.
For more help with developing a thesis statement, see the link below.
To prove your thesis point of view, it may be a good idea to begin by researching the statistics and consequences of school bullying in order to establish the justification for school-based anti-bullying programs.
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To address the rival point of view, it may be helpful to research the statistics and failures of bullying policies and programs.
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Statista is an excellent database offering over 1 million statistics on 80,000 topics.
This link opens in a new windowProQuest offers the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas. The database includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
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You can also try expanding your search by using the EBSCO Discovery Search (EDS) box on the Library homepage and linked below. This box will expand the resources beyond just ProQuest and include everything EBSCO and our other databases have to offer.
Remember that combining search terms may better target results.
Be sure to Include the quotation marks as shown above because they tell the database to look for the words together as a phrase.
When browsing through the search results, be sure to pay attention to subject tags, These can help you develop additional keyword searches.
Other search ideas may include:
