Ethical Assessment Exam
You and your friend, Leila, are in the same section of Speech. You are given an assignment which requires you to work in a small group with a third student, Tessa. Tessa does most of the research for the project, and Leila prepares the PowerPoint slideshow to accompany the presentation. You utilize the research and create the preparation and speaking outline. Your group has
Acted ethically because your group divided the work to accomplish the task.
By adding a "Works Cited" area to your speech outline and including all of the sources that you referenced in that outline, you are avoiding
Any perception of plagiarism
Another student, Ramona, takes your Scantron card from your binder without your knowledge and quickly copies your take-home test answers on to her Scantron card. After the test has been turned in, and you become aware of what happened, your ethical responsibility is to
Both a and b are ethical options.. (A is Inform your instructor that Ramona cheated and copied your answers without your knowledge; B is Tell Ramona that it is her ethical responsibility to inform the instructor what she has done or you will do so.)
You have come early to the room, and you are sitting at your desk in Speech class. Another student comes in and complains that she did not have a chance to finish the last two questions on a homework assignment. She asks you if she may see your paper so that she can copy just two of your answers. She promises to change the wording so that the professor will not know that she copied. If you agree, you are
Cheating because you are agreeing to unethical behavior
James takes material from two or three sources and presents a speech using paragraphs from each of the sources. During his speech, he does not credit any of the sources with oral citations. James is
Committing patchwork plagiarism.
The main purpose of oral citations is to
Give appropriate credit to the original source for his/her language or ideas.
Scott finds a speech outline on the Internet. He copies it and turns it into his instructor. Scott has committed
Global Plagiarism
In your speech, if you fail to give credit for a couple of short quotations that come from other people, you are committing
Incremental plagiarism
Which of the following statements about plagiarism is accurate?
To plagiarize is to present another person's ideas or language as your own.
Which of the statements below best describes the following situation: You find a photograph online which you would like to put into your PowerPoint presentation for your class. It is a copyrighted photo from a well-known magazine. You copy and paste the photo into your slideshow and use it as a visual image without giving credit to the magazine which owns the rights to the picture.
Your behavior is ethical because "Fair Use" permits students and scholars to use copyrighted visual images in presentations for educational purposes where no money is exchanged.
