Poetic License? Writing the Truth and Intellectual Dishonesty in Composition

by Joanna Johnson

Objectives

Educational Objectives

1. Students will learn to make more informed decisions about the choices they make in their own writing.

2. Students will have a greater awareness that both authors and readers make choices in the way information is presented and understood in writing. 

3. Students will better understand the difference between "falsehood," "creativity," and "falsification."

4. Students will learn about deceit and honesty, and how if often seems that there are no unequivocal rights or wrongs.