Test Questions & Answers Writing Ethically Chapter 3 - Essentials Tech Comm 5e | Test Bank Tebeaux by Elizabeth Tebeaux. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 3: Writing Ethically
Test Bank B
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 01
1) Why is the image below misleading?
<br><br><img src="https://oup-arc.com /static/5fa037212502bd0010d73e54/Tebeaux5e_TB_image/Ch 03 (1).jpg " style="max-width:100%" alt=”USA Today Snapshot”/><br><br>
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”
a. The numbers are not correct.
b. The author did not acknowledge the source of the data.
*c. The graph displays the lower figures on the top, which implies that spinal injuries are the most frequently suffered orthopedic injury by children, but it is actually the least.
d. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons doesn’t exist.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 02
2) What is a trademark?
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”
a. A composition of original material fixed in a tangible medium, such as books, journals, software applications, computer programs, video and audio recordings, and illustrations
b. A design, formula, list, method, pattern, or process that offers a competitive advantage over parties who don’t have the same information.
*c. A display of words or symbols communicated in text, illustrations, or sounds that identify and distinguish the goods of a manufacturer or a company name.
d. An item created during research, such as databases, diagrams, drawings, notes, prototypes, samples, and associated equipment and supplies.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 03
3) You volunteer to help a professor perform research in the lab. Your professor has you document various numbers and notes regarding the results of an experiment. If you take any of these items, you will be guilty of stealing what type of intellectual property of the professor and university?
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”
a. Trade Secret
b. Trademarks
c. Logos
*d. Tangible research items
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 04
4) To use the ideas of others without attribution is…
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”
a. okay, if inadvertent
*b. plagiarism
c. efficient in a work setting
d. legal, even if unethical
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 05
5) If borrowing a substantial portion of material, which of the following are your ethical and legal duties?
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”
*a. Acknowledge the source and obtain permission from the rights holder.
b. Acknowledge the source, but no permission is needed.
c. Acknowledge the source only if the source is in print form.
d. Acknowledge the source and place quotation marks around all quoted material.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 06
6) If you find yourself asked by a boss, colleague, or client to do something you don’t consider right, what should you do?
Page reference: “Managing Unethical Situations”
a. immediately declare the request unethical
b. explain to the individual how doing what they ask will get you fired
c. record all meetings after the request
*d. ask the individual to clarify their request
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 07
7) Performing unethical behavior can cost you your…
Page reference: “Managing Unethical Situations”
a. Credibility
b. Job
c. Finances
d. All of the above
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 08
8) In a collaborative project, what are the responsibilities of the team leader?
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”: “Writing Collaboratively”
a. Convene meetings
b. Draft and update the collaborative project plan, including the purpose and audiences of the document being created
c. Obtain and disseminate needed resources
*d. All of the above
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 09
9) As a team member working on a collaborative project, you are responsible for…
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”: “Writing Collaboratively”
a. Doing your part of the work
b. Being respectful
c. Attending meetings only when they affect your part of the work
*d. Both a and b
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 10
10) Below are screen shots of the main navigation bar of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (https://www.ice.gov/). Image 1 is the English version, and image 2 is the Spanish (español) version of the same website. What unethical communicative practice could the U.S. government be in violation of?
<br><br><img src="https://oup-arc.com/static/5fa037212502bd0010d73e54/Tebeaux5e_TB_image/Ch 03 (2).jpg" style="max-width:100%" alt=" Screen shots of the main navigation bar of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement site."/><br><br>
<br><br><img src="https://oup-arc.com/static/5fa037212502bd0010d73e54/Tebeaux5e_TB_image/Ch 03 (3).jpg" style="max-width:100%" alt=" Screen shots of the main navigation bar of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement site."/><br><br>
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”
*a. Promotion of prejudice.
b. Stealing copyright material.
c. Displaying misleading figures.
d. Displaying too many illustrations.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 11
11) Consider this scenario: You have just begun volunteering at a local campaign office for the state representative for your district. You have never gotten involved in a real political race before and you are excited. As soon as the campaign manager discovers that you are an English major and technologically savvy, the campaign manager puts you to work, “Get on the Internet and find some dirt on the opposition candidate. I don’t care what you find. I don’t care if it’s true, as long as someone else said it first. We don’t want anyone to think we’re making this stuff up.”
You are immediately troubled by this request. You are excited to perform some research and investigate the opposing candidate, you are worried about the statement that the campaign manager said about not caring if the information is true. What are some actions you can take to handle this situation that you feel might be jeopardizing your ethics?
Page reference: “Managing Unethical Situations”
a. Just do it, it isn’t a paid job and you want to dig up dirt on the opposing candidate.
b. Just do it, but only report true information to the campaign manager.
c. Tell the campaign manager you majored in English, but it was in historical literature, so you do not know how to research very well.
*d. Be polite and kindly ask the campaign manager to please clarify the request to research inaccurate information.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 12
12) Your professional obligations may conflict with each other. Which of the following are legitimate obligations that might conflict with each other?
Page reference: “Your Professional Obligations”
a. You must do your fair share of work and use no more than your fair share of resources.
b. You must support the public good and support yourself financially.
*c. You must share information with colleagues in the profession who work for different employers and shield confidential information that belongs to your employer.
d. You must take your fair share of the credit and your fair share of the blame.
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 13
13) The directory of Professors in the Chemistry Department who all have their PhD:
Dr. Fred Lincoln
Mrs. Adams
Dr. Abel Johnson
Harriet Hastings
What type of unethical communication is this an example of?
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”
*a. promotion of prejudice
b. deliberately imprecise or ambiguous language
c. manipulation of numerical information
d. Use of misleading illustrations
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 14
14) When encountering unethical situations, what is/are one/some question(s) to consider?
Page reference: “Managing Unethical Situations”
*a. What is the nature of the ethical dilemma?
b. What would my mother do?
c. Will I lose my job?
d. How will I be able to pay for legal implications?
Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 15
15) A good tactic when negotiating an issue that troubles you ethically is to…
Page reference: “Managing Unethical Situations”
*a. provide an ethical option to the unethical behavior.
b. make sure the other person knows they are being unethical.
c. never write anything down.
d. find colleagues who you can win to your side.
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 01
1) Define “intellectual property” and why ethical concerns are so central to the use of intellectual property.
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 02
2) Explain how a Code of Conduct might help you in making ethical decisions in the workplace?
Page reference: “Codes of Conduct and Standards of Practice”
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 03
3) Explain the situations that allow you to make limited use of copyrightable material without permission.
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 01
1) Imagine you work for a healthcare facility and you are responsible for the organization’s Facebook account. You are often asked to post patient testimonials and other motivating messages, such as images from doctors and patients. You always gain permission from the patients, doctors, and other people in the images to be able to post them publicly.
Recently, your organization reviewed patient history data and compared the results of patients who came into the Emergency Department with the number of patients who were successfully treated and had a positive health outcome. Your boss tells you to publish the following graphic on Facebook to show that most patients who come into the Emergency Department receive positive health outcomes and are, “sent home healthy, happy patients.”
More Happy Healthy Patients Leave Our Emergency Department
<br><br><img src="https://oup-arc.com/static/5fa037212502bd0010d73e54/Tebeaux5e_TB_image/Ch 03 (4).jpg" style="max-width:100%" alt=" Bored, Wait, Patient, Happy, Guide, Learn, Phone "/><br><br>
<br><br><img src="https://oup-arc.com/static/5fa037212502bd0010d73e54/Tebeaux5e_TB_image/Ch 03 (5).jpg" style="max-width:100%" alt=" An image of smiley faces in a graph. This image is used in discussing how to manage unethical graphics and situations."/><br><br>
First, explain why or why not the graphic is unethical. Next, describe how you would manage this ethical dilemma using some of the steps or actions the text discusses in the section, “Managing Unethical Situations,” in Chapter 3.
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication” and “Managing Unethical Situations”
Type: essay/short answer question
Title: Chapter 3 Question 02
2) Image this scenario: Your company is about to market a new line of espresso machines for home use. Your supervisor asks you to go online to various coffee house websites such as Starbucks, Seattle’s Best, and Caribou Coffee and copy the best language from their descriptions of their products. “It won’t be unethical,” he tells you, “because they sell their espresso at their store. We’re marketing in-home products. Just make a list of clever ideas, descriptions, metaphors, and phrases that we can use in our advertising copy.”
Write a memo to your supervisor in which you explain which ethical dilemmas his instructions create, reasons to avoid such actions, and a proposal for how to solve this ethical problem.
Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”