EXERCISE 5: EVALUATING SOURCES

You're writing a paper with the following research question:

Has the modern women's movement forced the Roman Catholic Church to consider allowing women to take leadership positions within the Church?

Which of the following sources would you initially evaluate as useful to you?

  1. The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 1968.

  2. An article entitled "The History of Women and the Church" in a 1992 copy of the journal Church and Society.

  3. A book, Growing Up Catholic: An Infinitely Funny Guide for the Faithful, the Fallen, and Everyone In-Between.

  4. A book entitled Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions of American Feminism.

  5. An article entitled "A Symposium on the Catholic Ethic and Feminism," in the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society published in 1995.

  6. An article entitled "Feminism Corrupts the Church" in The Catholic Digest magazine published in 1995.