Saturday, October 20, 2012
Ethical Responsibilities
A lot of times when writing a ten page essay I get tempted to alter words to quote from a source, only because I get so frustrated after looking at so many sources to find evidence for my topic. I think this is just like the ethical responsibilities that we are entrusted to provide for our presentations. It's easy to show a protest for something unrelated to your speech and say that they are protesting to support your topic, but that isn't right. The way I look at it your in class to educate yourself and your fellow students. So what would be the point of coming if your not interested in doing so? This is the reason why I like to be honest with anything I get from another source. I think the responsibilities for a presenter is to give correct and accurate facts that they are interested in so that the students and themselves can benefit overall from the assignment given to them.
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I know that it can be easy to want to fudge a few details sometimes when the frustration sets in. However, you make a valid point. We are in school to be educated. This isn't high school where we are forced to attend classes. We attend because it will benefit us. So why not learn from the experience and use these opportunities to further our knowledge as opposed to cheating ourselves AND our audience by taking the easy way out. In manipulating "evidence" we deprive not only the audience of a certain enlightenment and factual understanding of a subject, but
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