Chapter 2: Ethics and Public Speaking

Guidelines for ethical listening include which of the following?

*Be courteous and attentive. *Avoid prejudging the speaker. *Maintain the free and open expression of ideas.

Which of the following violates speakers' ethical obligation to be honest in what they say?

*Juggling statistics *Quoting out of context *Citing unusual cases as typical examples

Gabrielle, a physiology major, waited until the last minute to begin preparing her persuasive speech. When her friend Ken learned that she was panicking over the assignment, he gave her the outline of a speech he had delivered in class the previous semester. Gabrielle used the speech and presented it as her own. Which of the following is true?

Gabrielle is guilty of global plagiarism because she took a speech entirely from a single source and passed it off as her own.

In public speaking, sound ethical decisions involve weighing a potential course of action against what?

a set of ethical standards or guidelines

Because speechmaking is a form of power, it carries with it heavy ______ responsibilities.

ethical

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

ethics

Even if your speech as a whole is ethical, you can still be guilty of ______ plagiarism if you fail to give credit for quotations, paraphrases, and other specific parts of the speech that are borrowed from other people.

incremental

is the use of language to defame, demean, or degrade individuals or groups.

name-calling

When speakers ______, they restate or summarize an author's ideas in their own words.

paraphrase

Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own is called ______ plagiarism.

patchwork

If you present another person's language or ideas as your own, you are guilty of ______

plagiarism