ethical reponsibility

Eli Pardue
9/19/07
AP Lang Comp
LaMags

Ethical Responsibility

An author’s ethical responsibility relies in the credibility that they have to give the information to the audience they have singled out. For example, Patricia Hampl has perfect eligibility in telling her story because she was the one who experienced it, and it is her interpretation of that story that she is telling. On the other hand, an example of someone with poor credibility would be a freshman in high school writing a paper on psychology versus a professor of psychology writing that same paper.
Also, an authors ethical responsibility is weighted by the bias they have on what they are writing about. For example, the views on the affects of alcohol could be extremely different when comparing a partying college student with a Mother Against Drunk Driving.