LBIL 1054 PUBLIC SPEAKING (CHAPTER 2)

CHAPTER TWO (ETHICS AND PUBLIC SPEAKING)

Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the issues of right and wrong in human affairs

Ethical decision involves weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines

Guidelines for Ethical Speaking
-Make sure your goals are ethically sound
-Be fully prepared for each speech
-Be honest in what you say
-Avoid name calling and other forms of abusive language
-Put ethical principles into practice

Plagiarism is presenting another person’s language or ideas as one’s own
· Global plagiarism is stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one’s own
· Patchwork plagiarism is stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one’s own
· Incremental plagiarism is failing to give credit for particular parts of a speech that are borrowed from other people

Quotation: quoting someone’s words directly
Paraphrase: to restate or summarize an author’s ideas in one’s own word

Guidelines to Ethical Listening
· Be courteous and attentive
· Avoid prejudging the speaker
· Maintain the free and open expression of ideas