This document discusses the ethics of public speaking and listening. It provides guidelines for ethical speaking, such as making sure goals are ethical, being fully prepared, being honest, and respecting audiences' time. Guidelines for ethical listening include being polite and avoiding prejudging speakers. The document also discusses plagiarism, explaining that it involves presenting others' work as your own without credit. Plagiarism can be intentional or unintentional. The rise of Internet resources has made plagiarism easier due to ease of copy-and-pasting.

1. The ethics of
public speaking

2. What is ethics?

3. All parties in the
communication
process have ethical
responsibilities.
Principles of Ethics

4. Ethical speakers and listeners possess attitudes and
standards that pervade their character and guide their
actions before, during, and after their speaking and
listening.

5. The importance of ethics.

6. Guidelines for
ethical speaking.

7. 1. Make sure that your goals are
ethically sound.

8. 2. Be fully prepared for each
speech.

9. 3. Be honest in what
you say.

10. 4. Speak up about topics you
consider important.
Choose topics important to you that you live out
on a daily basis.

11. 5. Use truthful supporting material and
valid reasoning
 Keep track of your sources
and be ready to produce
them.
Don't make assertions you
can't support or justify.

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

13. 7. Respect your audience’s time.

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

15. Guidelines for
ethical listening.

16. 1. Be polite
and attentive.

17. 2. Avoid prejudging speakers or their
ideas.
“ You cannot judge a book by its cover”

18. 3. Evaluate the speaker’s logic and
credibility.

19. 4. Maintain the free and open
expression of ideas.

20. 5. Beware of the consequences
of not listening carefully.

21. Plagiarism.

22. 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.

23.  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:

24.  Giving incorrect information about the source of a
quotation.
 Changing words but copying the sentence structure
of a source without giving credit.
 Copying so many words
or ideas from a source
that it makes up the
majority of your work,
whether you give credit
or not.

25. Plagiarism can be:
Intentional: Speakers or writers knowingly
present another person’s words, ideas, or
organizations as their own
 Unintentional: Word –
substitution just changing the
word but keep the original
thought and ideas.

26. Plagiarism classification
 Global plagiarism
 Patchwork plagiarism
 Incremental plagiarism

27. 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

30. Thanks for your attention

31.  Lucas, Stephen. The Art of Public Speaking. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
 Grice, George L., and John F. Skinner. Mastering Public Speaking. 7th ed.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2010.
 https://merycris.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/guidelines-for-ethical-speaking/
 http://jameskudooski.hubpages.com/hub/the-ethics-in-public-speaking
 http://www.speechmastery.com/ethics-in-public-speaking.html
 http://www.publicspeakingproject.org/PDF%20Files/ethics%20web%201.pdf
 http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism/
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