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This 5 page paper examines an article by Anne Conway about the difference in the ways boys and girls handle aggression, and suggests how the student can apply that to a personal experience. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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women are routinely overlooked in research.) This paper explains a theory of aggression in girls as propounded by Anne Conway in her report "Girls, Aggression and Emotion Regulation," and relates
her theory to real life experience. Discussion Conways article is a prime example of whats wrong with "academic" writing. She seems incapable of putting together a sentence simply, so that
lay persons as well as professionals can understand her. For instance, what is a reader to make of this: "These data suggest that relatively high levels of distress may be
felt by relationally aggressive children in relational conflict situations and may lead them to engage in relationally aggressive behaviors as a strategy for regulating their emotions" (Conway, 2005, p. 336).
What?! What shes saying in an extremely circular way is that children who are "relationally aggressive" (that is, they use relationships to "beat up" other children rather than doing so
physically) may use these tactics in situations where they are under stress, and by doing so, relieve that stress. She believes that boys and girls are socially conditioned to
respond to strong emotions, such as anger, in different ways; in particular, girls are never taught how to deal with anger because its not considered appropriate for them to get
angry, and so they deal with it indirectly, as opposed to boys, who are allowed to fight and yell and scream with rage (Conway, 2005). Girls on the other hand
become "relationally aggressive" to direct their anger; including "withholding friendship, ignoring others, spreading rumors, gossiping, and eliciting peer rejection of another child" (Conway, 2005, p. 334). In other words, girls
learn to work indirectly to deal with their emotions; boys learn to express them more directly. In both cases, however, Conway argues that children who fight, argue, or use relational
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