what is view counterview form of writing skill,
View/ Counter-view form of writing is used to write debates or argumentative essays. While writing such forms, one writes either in favour of the topic or against the topic.
Here is an example of a debate:
Students should be held legally responsible for bullying in schools.
For the motion:
Respected Principal, teachers and dear friends, I speak for the motion – Students should be held legally responsible for bullying in schools.
Bullying is very common in schools in India. Students often use their strength or power to dominate weaker pupils.
The bullied individual feels humiliated, powerless, traumatised and often also suffers serious injuries.
An 11-year-old girl from Kolkata died of shock after she was locked in her school toilet by some senior girls and had to stay there for hours. The girl died before she reached the hospital. In another case, a student from an affluent school in one of the metros suffered permanent brain damage after he was gagged by his classmates in the toilet. The boy was 12 years old and was being bullied for almost an entire semester only because he was from a financially weaker background.
Children who are bullied suffer from depression and anxiety. They are known to isolate themselves from their peers and experience extreme sadness and loneliness. Their health is known to deteriorate; in fact,some victims have suffered serious injuries or have even died as a result of bullying.
Therefore, I consider bullying as a criminal offence and strongly feel the need for legal intervention to deal with bullying in schools. If bullying becomes a criminal offence, it will act as deterrence to this inappropriate behaviour.
Thank you.
Against the motion:
Respected Principal, teachers and dear friends, I speak against the motion – Students should be held legally responsible for bullying in schools.
I agree that a bully is a quarrelsome, overbearing person who intimidates smaller or weaker students.
However, I strongly feel that bullies are mentally and emotionally disturbed, and hence, they need counselling or even psychiatric care rather than punishment.
Research has shown that students who bully may have been bullied in the past in the family or by peers.
Children often use bullying to replace the social skills that they lack. Studies and reports have shown that some bullies belong to emotionally disturbed families and hence use bullying to displace their frustration and helplessness.
Children are the future of tomorrow. Bullying should be treated as a behavioural abnormality rather than a criminal offence. If bullies are treated as criminals and punished legally, they can actually become hardcore criminals when they grow up. What they need is care and attention rather than punishment.
Thank you.