COMS 101 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 - Ethics and Public Speaking

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 101
• Professor: Ritch Woffinden

Document Summary

Ethics - branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs. Ethical decisions - sound ethical decisions involve weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines. There can be gray areas when it comes to assessing a speaker"s goals. Better you prepare, better your speech will be. Being prepared involves everything from analyzing audience to creating visual aids, orga ideas to rehearsing your delivery. Also gotta be fully informed about your subject. Explore your speech topic as thoroughly as possible. Avoid name-calling and other forms of abusive language. Plagiarism plagiarism - presenting another person"s language or ideas as one"s own. Stealing speech entirely from another source and passing it off as your own. Failing to give credit for particular parts - increments - of the speech that are borrowed f people - mostly quotations and paraphrases. Maintain the free and open expression of ideas.