A PRIMER FOR TEACHING ETHICS IN PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

As a technical communication instructor, you know it is important to cultivate a sense of ethical responsibility in your students. You also know, though, that the topic of ethics can be a messy quagmire at any time but particularly so for students of technology used to thinking in terms of hard, indubitable facts and knowledge. This chapter will show you how important ethical awareness is in technical communication with real examples of how word choice and writerly perspective can have serious consequences. These examples will also keep you grounded in concrete specifics while avoiding the frustration of interminable debates about