Ethics in Public Speaking
Exercises
- Fill out the "Public Speaking Ethics Checklist"
while thinking about your first speech. Did you mark "true" for any of
the statements? If so, why? What can you do as a speaker to get to the
point where you can check them all as "false"?
- Robert is preparing a speech about legalizing
marijuana use in the United States. He knows that his roommate wrote a
paper on the topic last semester and asks his roommate about the paper
in an attempt to gather information. During his speech, Robert orally
cites his roommate by name as a source of his information but does not
report that the source is his roommate, whose experience is based on
writing a paper. In what ways does Robert's behavior violate the
guidelines set out in the NCA Credo for Ethical Communication?