Week 1 Day 2

• Can you stop communicating? Why?

• Sketch the communication model.
• On which day will you give your speech?
Ethical Public Speaking
COMS 2300
Today

• Housekeeping
• Ethical Public Speaking
• Introduction Speech
• Activity
• Discussion
Housekeeping

• Hand in pages 9
• Ready page 17
• Speech times
• Acclaim
• Office 256F
• T,H: 1:30-3pm
• David.Hansen@ttu.edu
Ethical Public Speaking
Ethical Questions in
Public Speaking
• Defining ‘ethics’
• Many interpretations
• How we determine right/wrong
• Do we state both sides?
• Do we acknowledge sources?
• Do we share disturbing details?
Ethos

• How the audience perceives the

character of the speaker
• Similar, not the same as ethics
• Establishing ethos
• Source credibility
• Speaker credibility
• Appearing ethical
• Shared values
Public Discourse

• Larger conversation
• How do we address the other side?
• Protected by Free Speech
• Defamation, slander
• Shouting fire in a crowded theater
• Care for the truth
• Protecting others rights
Practical Steps

• Dignity 1. Trustworthiness
• “bearing and conduct that is 2. Respect
respectful to self and others.”
(23) 3. Responsibility
• Integrity 4. Fairness
• “signals the speaker’s 5. Civic Minded
incorruptibility” (23)

(23-24)
Plagiarism

• The use and/or representation of others’ work as

your own
• Citing sources is awesome!
• No need to cite common knowledge
• Donald Trump is the POTUS
• Japan is east of China
• Let the audience know how to learn more
Copyright Laws

• Legal protections for IP

• Fair use
• Limited use for scholarship,
criticism, comment, news
reporting, teaching, or
research
• Also usually comedy
• Check with your sources

YOU BROKE THE RULES

Chapter 5
Listeners and Speakers
Listening

•Hearing vs. Listening

•Selective Listening
•Selective Perception
• Importance
• Experience and Background
• What We Know
Benefits of Listening

Managers equate
competence, efficiency,
Number one employee leadership potential,
Goals!
activity promoting employees,
and hiring new
employees with listening
How to be an Active
Listener
• Selective listening
• Examine own
expectations/motivations
• Refrain from multitasking
• Overcome cultural barriers
• Minimize distractions
• Avoid scriptwriting and defensive
listening
• Avoid being lazy or overconfidence
Evidence and
Reasoning
• Evaluate the speaker’s
evidence
• Analyze the speakers
assumptions and biases
• Assess the speakers reasoning
• Consider multiple perspectives
• Summarize and assess the
relevant facts and evidence
 Activity

Divide into 5 groups

Activity

• Line up along the back wall

• Oldest sibling closest to the door
• Youngest and no siblings furthest
Think, Pair, Share

• Analyze a piece of communication

• Determine if it was ethical or not on your own
• Discuss in a group
• Discuss as a class
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