The ethics of public speaking

What is ethics?

All parties in the communication

process have ethical responsibilities.

Principles of Ethics

Ethical speakers and listeners possess attitudes andstandards that pervade their character and guide theiractions before, during, and after their speaking andlistening.

The importance of ethics.

Guidelines for

ethical speaking.

1. Make sure that your goals are ethically sound.

2. Be fully prepared for eachspeech.

3. Be honest in whatyou say.

4. Speak up about topics you consider important.

Choose topics important to you that you live out on a daily basis.

5. Use truthful supporting material and valid reasoning

Keep track of your sourcesand be ready to producethem.

Don't make assertions youcan't support or justify.

6. Avoid name calling and other forms of abusive language.

7. Respect your audience’s time.

Treat each audience member as you would like to be treated if you were in your audience.

Guidelines for

ethical listening.

1. Be polite and attentive.

2. Avoid prejudging speakers or their ideas.

“ You cannot judge a book by its cover”

3. Evaluate the speaker’s logic and credibility.

4. Maintain the free and open expression of ideas.

5. Beware of the consequences of not listening carefully.

Plagiarism.

The word plagiarize comes from a Latin word meaning “to

kidnap”, to plagiarize means to present another person’s

language or ideas as your own.

Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks.

Turning in someone else's work as your own.

Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit.

All of the following are considered plagiarism:

Giving incorrect information about the source of aquotation.

Changing words but copying the sentence structureof a source without giving credit.

Copying so many wordsor ideas from a sourcethat it makes up themajority of your work,whether you give creditor not.

Plagiarism can be:

Intentional: Speakers or writers knowinglypresent another person’s words, ideas, ororganizations as their own

Unintentional: Word –substitution just changing theword but keep the original thought and ideas.

Plagiarism classification

Global plagiarism

Patchwork plagiarism

Incremental plagiarism

The Internet and the explosion of

online resources has made it easier for students to get to

those resources. It’s as easy as copy-and-

paste

How the Internet affects plagiarism

Thanks for your attention

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Grice, George L., and John F. Skinner. Mastering Public Speaking. 7th ed.

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