An analysis of recent literature on teaching ethics in public address

Teaching ethics in speech communication

“…Chapters on ethics, beginning to appear in persuasion texts in the 1950's (Jensen, 1959), are increasingly common in recent works, for example, Brembeck and Howell (1976), Andersen (1978), and Larson (1983). Chapters on ethics occur in argumentation texts, such as Miller and Nilsen (1966); Sproule (1980), and Jensen (1981); in debate texts, such as Keefe, Harte, and Norton (1982), and Klopf and McCroskey (1969); in discussion texts, such as Howell and Smith (1956), Gulley (1968), andBormann (1975); and in general texts in public speaking and interpersonal communication, such as Brown andKeller (1979), Howell (1982), McCroskey (1982), DeVito (1984, and Bradley (1984).…”