Developing Intellectual Honesty

Look How Far You Have Already Come!

We have reached the end of the second section of this course!  You are making awesome progress!  Being introduced to intellectually honesty can be a bit of a heavy topic.  Hopefully it got you thinking more truthfully about your own worldview.  It is time to record some of these thoughts!

Remember, writing things down helps you organize your thoughts, and remember what you have learned.

This is the part where you get to take what we have presented to you, and decide what you agree with and what you disagree with.  More importantly, this is where you get to take the things that we have learned, and make them your own.  Give them your own spin!  Apply them in ways that we hadn’t thought of!

We highly recommend that you not skip this step!

Constructed Journal Entry

Open a blank document somewhere.  This can be on Google Drive, on your computer, or anywhere else where you save important files.  Construct a private journal entry.  Where you will write down some of your thoughts and save them for later.  So that you can look at these thoughts again when you complete this course.

Your journal entry should include the following components:

• Record your current understanding of what intellectual honesty is.  Describe it as though you are writing to someone else, who has never heard of the concept before.  Provide enough information so that these persons can fully understand what it means to be intellectually honest.
• Make an argument for why intellectual honesty either is, or is not important.
• Explain how you plan to move forward when it comes to intellectual honesty.
• Talk about how you think this either will or will not help you to be a better and more successful person.

You will not submit this assignment to us.  This is just for your own personal records.