By Jennifer Mooney, Director, Technical & Scientific Communication Program
Department of English, Virginia Tech
No one can make ethical decisions for you. Even identifying the stakeholders and memorizing the relevant Code of Ethics for your profession won’t provide answers. Instead, these steps will help you define the questions you need to ask about the intended (and unintended) outcomes of your document, and offer general guidelines.
Once you have that information, you can define more precisely how the content, tone, and audience of your work might affect these stakeholders, and make your ethical decisions accordingly.
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