Think About: OUR NATIONAL BULLYING EPIDEMIC.

No matter what your age or where you are from, you almost certainly experienced elementary school, middle school or high school bullying at some point in your childhood (either as a victim, a witness, or maybe even the perpetrator). Keep in mind that many of us actually fit into all three of these categories. Bullies have typically been bullied and bullying victims often go on to bully others.

First Response Post: Whatever your perspective or place in the bullying aggression, try to remember how the school addressed the behavior. Answer the following questions:

What was the response of the school administration (teachers, principal, counselors, etc)? Was the response sufficient (did it stop the behavior)? If the response was not sufficient, what more could/should the school administration have done?

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Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.