EXERCISE 1 - Cengage



Exercise 1.4 Respond to reading by annotating.

Annotate the following excerpt from Stephen L. Carter’s “The Insufficiency of Honesty.” Copy and paste the excerpt into your word processing program and use the Comment feature or the Tools/Track Changes/Highlight Changes feature to make your annotations (see 4e and 10b). Compare your annotations to those written by your classmates. Then, as a group, conduct a brainstorming session on the topic of integrity.

A couple of years ago I began a university commencement address by telling the audience that I was going to talk about integrity. The crowd broke into applause. Applause! Just because they had heard the word “integrity”; that’s how starved for it they were. . . .

When I refer to integrity, I have something very specific in mind. Integrity, as I will use the term, requires three steps: (1) discerning what is right and what is wrong; (2) acting on what you have discerned, even at personal cost; and (3) saying openly that you are acting on your understanding of right and wrong. The first criterion captures the idea that integrity requires a degree of moral reflectiveness. The second brings in the ideal of a person of integrity as steadfast, a quality that includes keeping one’s commitments. The third reminds us that a person of integrity is unashamed of doing the right thing.

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