COMM-2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Name Calling, Juggling

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM-2500
• Professor: Geddes

Document Summary

Ethics the branch of philosophy that deals with issues of right and wrong in human affairs. Ethical decisions sound ethical decisions involve weighing a potential course of action against a set of ethical standards or guidelines. Your first responsibility as a speaker is to decide whether or not your goals are ethically sound. Most crucial, (from an ethical standpoint) is being fully informed about your subject. Consider the impact you have on the audience and get the facts right. Avoid name-calling and other forms of abusive language. Name-calling the use of language to defame, demean, or degrade individuals or groups, can be a destructive social force. Bill of rights first ten amendments to the constitution. Name calling is not illegal but it is unethical. Being ethical means behaving ethically all the time not only when its convenient . Plagiarism presenting another person"s language or ideas as one"s own.