CRAP! oh no, sorry, I mean CRAAP analyses and Bibliography ;)

Wow, April already! I feel as though I just started this class like last week! Anyway, so for this post I am going to be doing a CRAAP analysis for each of my sources. We had to have at least 5 creditable sources and 3 of which had to be Biblical. (not including the Bible) The CRAAP anaysis is how you can show that your sources are creditable. Its about a paragraph long for each source and it helps to give you an idea of the direction my paper will be going. Another thing that might be helpful for you all to know, I actually changed my topic, not a drastic change but my direction as a whole. At first I was going to do how love effected the chemicals in the brain. While that seemed really interesting to me, I kept finding sources on divorce. I thought that since I did not have any personal connection to divorce (my parents aren't divorced) it wouldn't be a good topic for me. Well as I kept researching I found that it is actually really interesting how children react to divorce! Children often suffer physically and emotionally due to divorce or even parents that are  not divorced but fight and act as though they are. Therefore my topic for this paper will be, How divorce effects children mentally and physically. Hope you enjoy!!!

**Just an FYI, all the CRAAP analyses go in order with the works cited. for example the first source listed is the first CRAAP listed, and so on.**

Works Cited:

Brockmann, Hilke, Dr. "Unhealthy Conditions? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Health of Children in One- and Two-parent Households | Brockmann | Comparative Population Studies." Unhealthy Conditions? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Health of Children in One- and Two-parent Households | Brockmann | Comparative Population Studies. Federal Institute for Population Research, 30 Sept. 2013. Web. 03 Apr. 2014.

Caverno, Charles. "The Divorce Problem: A Rational Religious View." Bibliotheca Sacra 274th ser. BSAC.069 (1912): n. pag. Galaxie Software. Web. 3 Apr. 2014.

Instone-Brewer, David. "What God Has Joined : What Does the Bible Really Teach about Divorce?" Christianity Today 51 (2007): n. pag. Christian Periodical Index. Web. 3 Apr. 2014.

Kalmijn, Matthijs, and Paul M. De Graaf. "Life Course Changes of Children and Well-being of Parents." Journal of Marriage and Family 74.2 (2012): 269-80. Print.

Keener, Craig S. "Divorce as a Justice Issue." Priscilla Papers 4th ser. PP.13 (1999): n. pag. Galaxie Software. Web. 3 Apr. 2014.

 

CRAAP Analysis

This article is a creditable source for my research because this source was found on an online journal and is also copy written from the federal institute of population research. Date-wise this publication is important to include because it is very recent. It was just written last year and divorce has always been a hot topic, but the divorce rate is climbing every year. The author’s main goal in this article is to inform about how children react to single parent household and two parent households. This publishing source for this audience generally targets an audience that fits the follow description: educated, single, divorced, single parent, parents of young children. This audience would be interested in this subject because it relates to their situation any helps them focus on how divorce could affect their children and would generally agree and disagree with this authors perspective topic.  The author incorporates the following types of evidence: The relationship between a mother and her child, graphs and charts of the percentages on marital status and the mental health of the child. He also looks into hospital/ doctor visits, weight of the children during/ after their parents’ divorce, and types of mental disorders that are relation to divorce in children and adults. This evidence builds creditability because it shows the author went over all avenues. He made sure he coved a large aspect of topics related to the effects of divorce and proved them scientifically but it is also limited because there is no biblical structure to his research. Based on my opinion, experiences, and research, I agree with this author because he is very academic and proves many different avenues to the effects of divorce, not just a single one. I think this article is important to include in my essay because I need a lot of different effects on divorce and the scientific data to prove it.

This article is a creditable source for my research because it was found on a theological journal database. This authors credentials include the fact that he was published in a journal which has many volumes. Date-wise this publication is important to include because it was written back in 1912 which shows that divorce has always been a topic that many wrote and researched about. Also it shows that the Bible has not changed and stays credible for hundreds of years. The author’s main goal in this article is to teach about what the bible says about divorce. The publishing source for this article generally targets an audience that fits the following description: Christian, divorced, educated, process of divorced, thinking about divorce, and theologians. This audience would be interested in this subject because it is a subject that is a gray area in the Bible and some people agree with divorce while others do not and would agree and disagree with this author’s perspective on the topic. The author incorporates the following types of evidence: the scripture verses about divorce and also the stipulations of getting into divorce but is also limited because it is written for mainly theologian audience. Based on my opinion, experiences, and research I agree with this author because he uses scripture to back up his ideas and I agree with his ideas as well. I think this article is important to include in my essay because I need to have a biblical basis and scripture to back my ideas up.

This article is a credible source for my research because I found this journal on LBC’s one source and meets all the qualification for citing a source. The author’s credentials include that he is a senior research fellow in rabbinics and the New Testament at Tyndale House, Cambridge. He is also married and has 2 daughters. The author’s main goal in this article is to inform about what the bible says about divorce and the stipulation of getting divorced and remarried.  The publishing source for this article generally targets an audience that fits in the following description: educated, Christian, divorced, thinking about divorce, widowed, wanting to get remarried, biblical scholars. This audience would generally agree with this author’s perspective about the topic. The author incorporated the following types of evidence: he starts the journal out as talking to a pastor about divorce then it sparks his interest so he researches it. He informs about new testament teaching and the scripture. He speaks about what other pastors might think, as well as, the stipulations to getting divorced or remarried. But this is also limited because it does not use any non-biblical context. Based on my opinion, experiences, and research I agree with this author because he speaks about other pastors and that not all will agree on topics, which I have had firsthand experience with. I think this article is important to include in my essay because it shows a married man talking about divorce and the importance of staying committed to the vows of marriage.

This article is a creditable source for my research because I had found it on LBC’s once source witch is very creditable due to it is from the library and it is also a journal from a doctor. The author’s credentials include that both of them worked for or work with Tilburg University. Date-wise this publication is important to include because it was in 2012, which still makes it a good current source. The author’s main goal in this article is to inform about the effects of divorce parents on their kids. This publishing source for this article generally targets an audience that fits the following description: educated, divorced, parents, single parent, a child of divorced parents, therapist, and councilor. This audience would be interested I this subject because the authors provide evidence of how divorce affects children and the comparison between non divorce parents to divorced parents and would generally agree and disagree with this author’s perspective on the topic. The author incorporates the following types of evidence: Social norms vs. Altruistic perspective vs. selfish perspectives, results of divorce in parents, and the mental and physical effects on the children. This evidence builds credibility because it shows they took the ways people see divorce and how divorce occurs and compared them all but this is limited because it does not focus on biblical principles. Based on my own opinion, experiences, and research, I agree with this author because they have showed both mental and physical effects as well as the perspectives of divorce. I think this article is important in my essay because it brings all different perspective into consideration. Also it broadens my audience.

This article is a credible source for my research because it is a biblical source found on a theological journal database. The author’s credentials include that he is a professor of New Testament at Eastern Seminary and an author if nine books. Date-wise this publication is important to include because it was written in 1999, so it is not too far back and it is not too present. It evens out the dates in my other sources. It also gives my paper more depth into the time line of divorce issues. The author’s main point is to inform about divorce as a justice issue and what the church says about divorce vs. what the scriptures say about divorce. The publishing source for this article generally targets an audience that fits the following description: divorced, pastor, church involved, married, wanting to remarry, evangelists, and abused. This audience would be interested in this subject because he brings up what the pastors think about divorce and how many pastors could think differently about the issue. Also he talks about what leads to divorce and what the stipulations of divorce are. This evidence builds credibility because he specifically shows in scripture where divorce is okay if one person in the marriage is breaking the vows but is also limited because there is no outside focus for other cultures that might not have strict marriage vows. Bases in my own opinions, experiences, and research, I agree with this author because being taught at LBC I see a lot of connects on what my professors say as well as what the authors say. I think this article is important to include in my essay because it brings a lot of my other sources together. It just doesn’t say what divorce does but it explains what leads up to divorce and how divorce was portrayed back in biblical times and in the present day.