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Ethics in public speaking refers to the moral principles and standards that guide speakers in delivering honest, respectful, and responsible messages. It means speaking truthfully, avoiding plagiarism, respecting the audience’s values, and using words that promote understanding rather than harm.

An ethical speaker aims to inform, inspire, or persuade without misleading or offending others. Practicing ethics ensures that communication builds trust, credibility, and respect between the speaker and the audience.

1. The ethics of public speaking

2. What is ethics ? First, ethics refers to  well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues

3. What is ethics ?

4. All parties in the communication process have ethical responsibilities. Principles of Ethics

5. Ethical speakers and listeners possess attitudes and standards that pervade their character and guide their actions before, during, and after their speaking and listening.

6. The importance of ethics .

7. Guidelines for ethical speaking .

8. 1. Make sure that your goals are ethically sound.

9. 2. Be fully prepared for each speech .

10. 3. Be honest in what you say .

11. 4. Speak up about topics you consider important. Choose topics important to you that you live out on a daily basis.

12. 5. Use truthful supporting material and valid reasoning Keep track of your sources and be ready to produce them. Don't make assertions you can't support or justify.

13. 6. Avoid name calling and other forms of abusive language.

14. 7. Respect your audience’s time.

15. Treat each audience member as you would like to be treated if you were in your audience.

16. Guidelines for ethical listening .

17. Be polite and attentive.

18. 2. Avoid prejudging speakers or their ideas. “ You cannot judge a book by its cover”

19. 3. Evaluate the speaker’s logic and credibility .

20. 4. Maintain the free and open expression of ideas.

21. 5. Beware of the consequences of not listening carefully.

22. Plagiarism.

23. The word plagiarize comes from a Latin word meaning “to kidnap”, to plagiarize means to present another person’s language or ideas as your own.

24. Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks. Turning in someone else's work as your own. Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit. All of the following are considered plagiarism:

25. Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit. Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not.

26. Plagiarism can be: Intentional : Speakers or writers knowingly present another person’s words , ideas, or organizations as their own Unintentional : Word – substitution just changing the word but keep the original thought and ideas.

27. Plagiarism classification Global plagiarism Patchwork plagiarism Incremental plagiarism

28. The Internet and the explosion of online resources has made it easier for students to get to those resources. It’s as easy as copy-and-paste How the Internet affects plagiarism

29. Thanks for your attention !

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