The Ethical Speaker
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Ethical considerations in public speaking are inescapable. Ethical pbulic speaking respects the integrity of ideas and focuses in the impact of communication on listeners. Respect for the integrity of ideas means meeting the demands of responsible knowledge, carefully using communication techniques, and avoiding such practices as quoting out of context and plagiarism. Responsible knowledge is useful knowledge. It requires having up to date information on the major points of a topic, what the most respected experts have to say about it, and how these points affects your immediate audience. Plagiarism is intellectual theft. Being convicted r even suspected of such a crime can damage your ethos beyond repair.
Concern for listeners comes as you develop an ” other” orientation in your public speaking class to balance the egocentrism or excessive preoccupation with the self, that you may be represented in the class if you appeals in a global code of ethics.