PUBLIC SPEAKING
Ethics and Public Speaking
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Laws, Morals, and Ethics
• All deal with issues of right & wrong in
human affairs
• Laws come from Governments
• Morals come from society
• Ethics come from activities
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Ethical Decisions
• Weighing potential course of action
against ethical standards
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Ethical Speaking Guidelines
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Make ethically sound goals
Be fully prepared
Be honest
Avoid name-calling, abusive language
Put principles into practice
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Ethically Sound Goals
• Must be in the best interest of the audience
• (Or they must be fully informed)
• Cannot include illegal, immoral, or
unethical elements
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Be Fully Prepared
• The audience will believe you even if you
are wrong
• Don’t waste their time with an unprepared
speech
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Be Honest
• Statements must be accurate to the best of
your informed knowledge
• Don’t use statements that can clearly be
misconstrued
• You must use due diligence
• Plausible deniability is not acceptable
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Name-Calling
• Using language to defame, demean,
degrade individuals or groups
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Plagarism
• Presenting language, ideas of another as
one’s own
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Types of Plagiarism
• Global
• Patchwork
• Incremental
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Global Plagiarism
• Stealing speech from single source,
passing it off as one’s own
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Patchwork Plagiarism
• Stealing ideas, language from two or
three sources & passing them off as one’s
own
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Incremental Plagiarism
• Failing to give credit for parts of speech
borrowed from others
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Plagiarism & Internet
• Cite sources when using Internet
materials
• Take careful notes
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Ethical Listening
• Speechmaking a two-way street
• Listeners have ethical obligations
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Ethical Listening Guidelines
• Be courteous, attentive
• Avoid prejudging speaker
• Maintain free expression of ideas
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