Annotation draft*

Cassie Lyne
English 11 A12
11/27/2009
Project 5: Annotating of a Scholarly Article
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In his article Ernest, and others analyze the violence in adolescent teen relationships. They define the measures adolescent dating, and dating violence. Ernest explains two types of dating violence as physical, and psychological. Also providing much statistics to support the argument, and gives a vivid explanation on the prevalence of violence. It concludes with the prevention, and intervention of violence in adolescent teen relationships.

Ernest is a professor in the Department of Psychology, and Co-Director of the Family Research Center at Southern Methodist University. Another author Cora Platt is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at Southern Methodist University. Renee Mcdonald Ph.D is an Associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Co-Director of the Family Research Center at Southern Methodist University. These authors had the purpose to simply inform with there many supporting statistics. There use of ads, and charts proved to provide rock hard evidence in this piece. They completely avoided any bias statements, and left out any personal opinions. It was published less than a year ago in February 2009. It is obvious these authors worked hard and put much thought into the article, and construction of it