Writing Ethically Verified Test Bank Tebeaux Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Writing Ethically

Test Bank A

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 01

1) Which of the following entities do you have ethical responsibilities?

Page reference: “Your Professional Obligations”

a. Yourself

b. The public

c. Your employer

*d. All of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 02

2) Which of the following situations may your ethics be questioned?

Page reference: “Your Professional Obligations”

a. You object to your organization performing illegal activities.

b. You object to your organization performing legal activities that cause harm to the planet and people.

*c. You do not question your organization’s performance of legal dumping of chemical waste into people’s drinking water, which subsequently makes them ill.

d. You disregard what your boss tells you to do because you and your academic institution have a higher ethical standard.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 03

3) If you are faced with an ethical dilemma, a good rule of thumb to help you make a decision is...

Page reference: “Writing Ethically” (Chapter Title)

a. Pass the problem up to a supervisor, then follow that person’s instructions.

b. Do nothing. Things often work themselves out.

c. Follow your gut. If you do what feels right you’ll do the right thing.

*d. Think of someone you admire and ask yourself how that person would handle the dilemma.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 04

4) What are Codes of Conduct?

Page reference: “Codes of Conduct and Standards of Practice”

a. Public rules that everyone must follow.

*b. Professional guidelines or rules that specify appropriate behavior on the job that are specific to each organization.

c. Technical communicators’ published guidelines for how to write ethically.

d. Behavioral attributes that ethical people have.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 05

5) Which of the following is a way in which one can violate ethical guidelines?

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

a. Read the organization’s Code of Conduct.

*b. Manipulating statistics.

c. Using one’s professional association’s Standard of Practice in order to make a decision.

d. Checking one’s facts to ensure they are correct before delivering information.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 06

6) Using the words, images, or ideas of others without attribution

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

*a. is plagiarism.

b. is only plagiarism if you identify the material as your own.

c. is only plagiarism if you do it on purpose.

d. is only plagiarism if the material has been copyrighted.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 07

7) What is a copyright?

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

a. Requires a patent to be real.

b. Must be applied for with a government agency.

*c. is automatic as soon as the material is created in permanent format, including files on a computer or the Internet.

d. is only a concern if it has a copyright notice on it.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 08

8) When you quote a source, in order to avoid plagiarism

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

a. change key words using your Thesaurus.

b. summarize; then you don’t have to specify the source.

c. only use brief passages, a sentence or less.

*d. put material in quotation marks and specify the source.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 09

9) If you alter material you have borrowed from another source, such as a chart or table…

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

a. you have to get permission to make changes.

b. you no longer need to acknowledge the source...

*c. you have to acknowledge the source and acknowledge that you have altered the material and how.

d. put material in quotation marks and specify the source.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 10

10) Which of the following entities do you need permission to use material from?

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

a. Material created by United States Government agencies.

b. Material for which copyright protection has expired.

*c. Material that has never been registered with the copyright office.

d. Material identified as open source or creative common.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 11

11) Why is deliberate use of imprecise or ambiguous language a form of unethical communication?

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

a. Because the writer does it unintentionally.

*b. Because unclear communication can mislead and confuse readers.

c. Because readers have difficultly making decisions when they are only given facts.

d. Because the writer doesn’t mean to do it.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 12

12) John is a sales person who is reporting on his company’s monthly sales and the chart he shows his co-workers is divided into married individuals and single individuals. Which ethical consideration is John guilty of?

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

a. Failing to make information accessible.

*b. Promotion of prejudice.

c. Fact checking.

d. Critically accessing the credibility of his source of information.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 13

13) To communicate ethically, what must you do prior to using any material from another source?

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

*a. Critically evaluate the material’s accuracy across multiple sources and assess the credibility of the source.

b. Ask your boss if the information can be used.

c. Avoid using any material that is not provided by the United States government, than you don’t need to worry about ethics.

d. Always review your social media to see if someone else has used it first, than you know it is accurate.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 14

14) To communicate ethically, what must you do prior to using any material from another source?

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

*a. Critically evaluate the material’s accuracy across multiple sources and assess the credibility of the source.

b. Ask your boss if the information can be used.

c. Avoid using any material that is not provided by the United States government, than you don’t need to worry about ethics.

d. Always review your social media to see if someone else has used it first, than you know it is accurate.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 15

15) If asked to take an unethical action, one reason to cite the Code of Conduct for your profession or company is to…

Page reference: “Managing Unethical Situations”

*a. show that the request is considered unethical in your profession or company.

b. prove that you are right.

c. make the other person feel small.

d. stall for time.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 01

1) Explain why NOT being critical of the information you source can be considered an ethical violation and be potentially harmful to individuals who use the communication.

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 02

2) Explain how your reputation affects your career.

Page reference: “Your Professional Obligations”

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 03

3) Explain why it is important to always acknowledge sources.

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 01

1) One of the ethical challenges for anyone employed as a writing professional is that their obligations may sometimes conflict with each other. Your textbook lists the following obligations:

To yourself

To your discipline and profession

To your academic institution

To your employer

To your colleagues

To the public

Choose two or more obligations from the list and explain how those obligations might, on occasion conflict with each other by describing a scenario in which this ethical dilemma may be encountered. You can describe a real-life situation you have encountered either at school or at work, or you can create an artificial scenario. Make sure to explain how you might resolve this ethical dilemma.

Page reference: “Your Professional Obligations”

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 3 Question 02

2) The following is a passage from a peer-reviewed journal article:

“While providing students with sufficient time and practice to familiarise themselves with the procedure, teachers should also be aware that there are possibly some students who will not find the procedure comfortable to use and especially so in a group due to learner differences mentioned earlier. Furthermore, when the practice period is over, the teacher could perhaps allow the students to determine their own group members so that they will at

least not feel uncomfortable in the group. However, if such is the case, the teacher should ensure that at least one member of the group is of higher proficiency and reading ability who can play the role of a knowledgeable peer so that the instructional procedure can be beneficial.

Finally, while think-aloud by the students themselves is crucial in the instructional procedure examined in this study, think-aloud by the teachers themselves is also essential. This is because the teacher would be required to think aloud so as to model comprehension processes and to provide examples of think-aloud itself before encouraging students to use it. As with any other instructional procedures that require the use of think-aloud as part of the instruction, the underlying assumption is that the teachers themselves are proficient and comfortable in carrying out think-aloud.”

Reference: Seng, G. H. (2007). The Effects of Think-Aloud in a Collaborative Environment to Improve Comprehension of L2 Texts. An International Online Journal, 7(2), 29-45. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1066602

This essay question has two parts: In part one, summarize and paraphrase the two paragraphs above, which are directly quoted from Seng’s article. In part two, correctly specify the source of the borrowed or original content and explain why or why not it is ethically appropriate.

Page reference: “Recognizing Unethical Communication”