Summary of Cyberbullying among university students

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Summary of Cyberbullying among university students
Technology has become an essential necessity in contemporary civilization facilitating comprehensive and coherent communication via hi-tech platform. Though technology is advantageous, it can facilitate negative communication resulting in a new phenomenon called cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the harassment of internet users by unknown persons (e.g. sending someone pessimistic comments). This paper will give a summary of an article written about cyberbullying in university students, titled “An Exploratory Study of Cyberbullying with Undergraduate University Student”.
The article is written by; Beth Sockman, Steven Koehn and Carol Walker, from a third-person point of view as a scientific report. The article is descriptive and presents the result of the study in the form of tables and statistics. It is an exoteric piece of literature, as it can be easily understood without any specialized knowledge and it has simple diction. Besides it has uncomplicated enunciation thus an ideal literature. It portrays expository rhetoric, as its objectives are to inform readers of the results. The authors take no position, however the persuasive rhetoric presents briefly when the authors argue the importance of the topic and the necessity for supplementary research on this field of study.
The authors conducted a study to determine the impacts of cyberbullying on university undergraduate students. They argue...