Speech chapter 2 – Flashcards

Because speechmaking is a form of power, it carries with it heavy_____________ responsibilities

Ethics

In public speaking, sound ethical decisions involve weighing a potential course of action against

Even though there can be gray areas when it comes to assessing a speaker's goals, it is still necessary to ask ethical questions about those goals

Because listeners recognize that public speakers are promoting their self-interest, it is acceptable for speakers to alter evidence

What violates the speaker's ethical obligation to be honest in what she or he says?

The larger an audience becomes, the greater is the speaker's ethical responsibility to be fully prepared

Name-calling

If you present another person's language or ideas as your own, you are guilty of

stealing ideas or language from two or three sources and passing them off as one's own is called

Gabrielle, a physiology major, waited until the last minute to begin preparing her persuasive speech. When her friend Ken learned that she was panicking over the assignment, he gave her the outline of a speech he had delivered in class the previous semester. Gabrielle used the speech and presented it as her own. What is she guilty of?

When a speaker_________, she restates or summarizes an author's ideas in her own words

It is only necessary for a speaker to identify his or her source when quoting verbatim—not when paraphrasing

Even if your speech as a whole is ethical, you can still be guilty of___________ plagiarism if you fail to give credit for quotations, paraphrases, and other specific parts of the speech that are borrowed from other people

Protecting a speaker's freedom to express his or her ideas implies agreement with those ideas