Ethics and Public Speaking

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Chapter 2

• Ethics and Public Speaking

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Ethics

• The branch of philosophy that deals with issues
  of right and wrong in human affairs.

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Ethical decisions

• Sound ethical decisions involve weighing a
  potential course of action against a set of
  ethical standards or guidelines.

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Guidelines for ethical speaking

• 1. Make sure your goals are ethically sound
• 2. Be fully prepared for each speech
• 3. Be honest in what you say
• 4. Avoid name-calling and others forms of
• abusive language
• 5. Put ethical principles into practice

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Guideline 1Make sure your goals are ethically
sound

• What do the speakers hope to accomplish?

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Guideline 2Be fully prepared for each speech

• You have an obligation to yourself and your
  listenersto prepare fully every time you stand
  in front of an audience.

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Guideline 3Be honest in what you say

• Make sure the words you say can be trusted and
  people will be truthful.

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Name-calling

• The use of language to defame, demean, or degrade
  individual or groups.

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Guideline 4Avoid name-calling and abusive
languages

• Words are powerful weapons. Our identities,
• Who we are, how others see us, are affected by
  the names we are called and the words with which
  we are labeled.

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Guideline 5Put ethical principles into practice

• Being ethical means behaving ethically
• all the time

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Plagiarism

• Presenting another persons language or ideas as
  ones own

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Types of plagiarism

• 1. Global plagiarism
• 2. Patchwork plagiarism
• 3. Incremental plagiarism
• 4. Plagiarism and the internet

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Global Plagiarism

• Stealing a speech entirely from a single source
  and passing it off as ones own.

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Patchwork Plagiarism

• Stealing ideas or language from two or three
  sources and passing them off as ones own.

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Incremental Plagiarism

• Failing to give credit for particular parts of a
  speech that are borrowed from other people.

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Incremental Plagiarism

• ?Quotations
• A phrase or short piece of writing taken from
  a longer
• work of literature, poetry, etc. or what
  someone else has
• said.
• ?Paraphrases
• To restate or summarize an authors ideas in
  ones own words.

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Plagiarism and the Internet

• The internet now covers to much information that
  we can get easily. In other words, it is easy for
  us to copy the information we want from the web.

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Guidelines for ethical listening

• 1. Be courteous and Attentive
• 2. Avoid prejudging the speaker
• 3. Maintain the free and open expression of ideas

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Guideline 1Be courteous and attentive

• As a listener, you should be respectful and try
  to pay attention to the speaker.

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Guideline 2Avoid prejudging the speaker

• Listeners should strive to understand and respect
  speakers before evaluating and responding to
  their message.

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Guideline 3Maintain the free and open expression
of ideas

• Public speakers have an almost unlimited right
  for expression. But it is important to keep in
  mind that ensure a speakers freedom to express
  the ideas doesnt imply agreement with those
  ideas.

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Summary

• ?Guidelines for ethical speaking
• 1. Make sure your goals are ethically sound
• 2. Be fully prepared for each speech
• 3. Be honest in what you say
• 4. Avoid name-calling and others forms of
  abusive language
• 5. Put ethical principles into practice
• ?Types of plagiarism
• 1. Global plagiarism
• 2. Patchwork plagiarism
• 3. Incremental plagiarism
• 4. Plagiarism and the internet

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• ?Guidelines for ethical listening
• 1. Be courteous and Attentive
• 2. Avoid prejudging the speaker
• 3. Maintain the free and open expression of
  ideas

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Conclusion
From all these ways we mentioned above, your
speech will offer a good testing ground for
questions of ethical responsibility.
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References

• THE ART of PUBLIC SPEAKING
• ninth edition by Stephen E. Lucas
• Published by McGraw. Hill International edition