Ethical Speaking: Taking Responsibility for Your Speech

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As a responsible public speaker, you must let ethics guide every phase of planning and researching your speech. Being an ethical speaker means being responsible: responsible for ensuring that proper credit is given to other people’s ideas, data, and research that you have incorporated into your presentation, as well as being responsible for what you say (and how you say it) to your audience. Let’s review, starting with what happens when you plagiarize, or fail to cite your sources properly.