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Discussion on Ethical Public Speaking

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Take one of these scenarios and discuss why you think it is ethical or unethical and what your response might be:
A. You overhear a student in your public speaking class ask one of his friends if he can use the speech he gave on drilling for oil in Alaska in his public speaking class last semester. The friend says yes. The next week your classmate gives his speech on drilling for oil in Alaska.
B. As you are listening to a classmate's speech you get a strange feeling that you've heard this information somewhere. After class, it dawns on you that you recently read an article about this in Sports Illustrated. When you go home and review the article, you realize that your classmate used almost every word from the article for her speech. She never told the class she got the information from Sports Illustrated.
C. A student wants to give a speech on the ways to make money in college. One of his points is going to be dealing drugs.

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Running head: ETHICAL PUBLIC SPEAKING1
Discussion on Ethical Public Speaking
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ETHICAL PUBLIC SPEAKING

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Discussion on Ethical Public Speaking


By definition, public speaking is, or should be, ethical and responsible. This applies to each and every phase in speech making from preparation to delivery. There are, in fact, as many ethical principles public speakers should uphold in order to maintain credibility. Perhaps integrity is, for current purposes, one such important principle. In a given situation where a classmate delivers a speech without referring to original source, Sports Illustrated, a case of global plagiarism is identified. By failing to cite, in speech, sources a speaker uses information from she is said to be committing global plagiarism. By “global plagiarism” is meant, according to class material, a case where a speaker copies almost verbatim information from a source without due reference. The speaker in current case is, accordingly, globally plagiarizing speech information by choosing not to mention Sports Illustrated as main source. This is, I strongly believe, a clear case of unethical public speaking because of committing global plagiarism.
The unethicality of speaker’s behavior in current case is explained by several factors. First, choosing (emphasized) not to refer to a source of information is an intentional act whose perpetrator is fully aware of yet chooses – again – to do. The intentionality in wrongdoing is, in fact, not only inexcusable yet, more importantly, a solid evidence of perpetrator’s ill purpose and dishonesty. Second, plagiarism, of any sort, is already a major prohibition in academia. To choose to intentionally not to cite a source in an academic setting is, accordingly, a solid proof of perpetrator...
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