COMM 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ethical Decision

• School: CSULB
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 130
• Professor: Lucretia Wright

Document Summary

Comm 130: chapter 2 - ethics and public speaking. Goal is to gain a desired response from listeners, but not at any cost. The branch of philosophy meaning and the study if whats right and wrong. Sound ethical decisions involve weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines. Make sure your goals are ethically sound. If you have certain belief, stick to them. Find different ways to deliver the speech and to make it easier to remember the content. Avoid name calling and other offensive language. Can be used to defame, demean, or degrade individuals or group. Presenting other people"s work as your own. Stealing a speech entirely from a single source and passing it off as one"s own. Stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and pass off as one"s own. Failing to give credit for some parts of a speech that were borrowed from some people.