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My Research Topic is: What is the meaning of “Spiritual Psychology?”

Key words related to my Research Topic are: Spiritual Psychology

Part 1: Examine Wikipedia articles that are directly related to your Research Topic and select a substantive article to evaluate. This could be an article about an idea (e.g., I might choose the one about Trance) or a person (if I were researching Reggae music, I might pick Bob Marley). Answer the following questions: I chose to read and evaluate the article titled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality (for extra credit, link the name of the article to the article in Wikipedia.)

1. Is there a warning banner at the top of the article? Yes or No. No.

If there is a warning banner, copy and paste the warning banner here.

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (March 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Write an brief explanation of the reason the issues mentioned in the warning banner are important. For example, if the issue is “needs additional citations for verification,” why does that matter?

This issue is very important because without citations and verifications, we wouldn’t be able to have reliable information about this person and we wouldn’t be able to use this website since they didn’t cite their information, which shows that they could’ve plagiarized everything that is stated in that article or just put random information which is not verified as factual information.

Please note: If the article you are evaluating does not have a warning banner, choose a warning banner from a different article and explain the warning that is in that banner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Hornsby

2. Is the lead section of the article easy to understand? Yes. Does it summarize the key points of the article? Yes.

3. Is the structure of the article clear? Yes. “Are there several headings and subheadings, images and diagrams at appropriate places, and appendices and foonotes at the end?” Yes.

4. Are “the various aspects of the topic balanced well”? That is does it seem to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic?

Yes, it does seem to be well balanced. It starts with the etymology and definition. It goes through various cultures views of spirituality as well as describes past versus moderns versions of spirituality as well as religious versus non religious definitions of spirituality.

5. Does the article provide a “neutral point of view”? Does it read like an encyclopedia article instead of a persuasive essay?

Yes, it is neutral. I does not claim any one view of spirituality to be the true version but instead describes all in an informative way

6. Are the references and footnotes citing reliable sources? Do they point to scholarly and trustworthy information? Beware of references to blogs; look for references to books, scholarly journal articles, government sources, etc.

Yes. published books from reputable publishers, scientific journals, and textbooks (you can find a list at the bottom of the wikipedia page, there a a ton of good journal names to choose from)

7. Look for these signs of bad quality and comment on their presence or absence from the article you are evaluating:

a. is the lead section well-written, in clear, correct English? yes

b. are there “unsourced opinions” and/or “value statements which are not neutral”? No unsourced opinions that i saw. Some articles have citation needed labels like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Coffee look at the end of the early life section

c. does the article refer “to ‘some,’ ‘many,’ or other unnamed groups of people,” instead of specific organizations or authors or facts? no

d. does the article seem to omit aspects of the topic? no

e. are some sections overly long compared to other sections of similar importance to the topic? no

f. does the article lack sufficient references or footnotes? no

g. Look at the “View History” for the article. As you read the conversation there, do you see hostile dialogue or other evidence of lack of respectful treatment among the editors? No. __________________________

Part 2: Evaluate the Wikipedia article you selected using the CARDIO method. Write your answers following each word below:

Currency (When was the last update of this article? hint: check the View History) The last update of the person who revised this website February 6, 2017 @ 1:37pm.

Authority (What evidence do you find that the author(s) of this article have the appropriate credentials to write on this topic?) i don’t see that any of the sources list author qualifications such as degrees (masters or phds) or where they work such as professors at a college but the fact that the authors have been published in reputable sources such as British Journal of Clinical Psychology, International Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Clinical Psychology, etc.. makes me feel the authors have authority.

Relevance (to your research topic)This journal article has all the relevance to my research topic because it talks all about my topic, and it was recently written, so the information is still up to date and still not changed because if it was written generations ago for example, new updates arise and new changes are being made to the old information as time evolves.

Depth-This article goes very deep into what it is trying to say. It talks about the definition of etymology, it presents the meaning of spirituality, then goes into the types of various cultures views of spirituality as well as describes past versus moderns versions of spirituality as well as religious versus non religious definitions of spirituality. The journal article is extremely long, several pages! It probably covers everything about the whole subject matter!

Information Format (I hope this one will be easy for you.) This wikipedia journal article is written in essay MLA format.

Object (what is the purpose for creating this article?) to give a comprehensive view of spirituality that includes outlooks from different cultures, times, as well as spirituality that is not religiously based.