Discuss the six areas of unethical communications covered in the chapter

What will be an ideal response?

Plagiarism is presenting someone else's words or other creative product as your own. Second is the act of purposely omitting essential information. Information is essential if your audience needs it to make an intelligent, objective decision. The third type of unethical communication is selective misquoting, which is distorting or hiding the true intent of someone else's words. Fourth, statistics and other data can be unethically manipulated by increasing or decreasing numbers, exaggerating, altering statistics, or omitting numeric data. The fifth area of unethical communication happens when images are manipulated in unethical ways, such as altering photos to deceive audiences or changing the scale of graphs and charts to exaggerate or conceal differences. Finally, failing to respect privacy or information security needs can result in unethical communication. Failing to respect the privacy of others or failing to adequately protect information entrusted to your care can also be considered unethical (and is sometimes illegal).