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Regardless of how we wish to resolve them, or regardless of what standards we use to resolve them, complex and difficult potential ethical problems lurk in human discourse. This essay explores the inherency of potential ethical issues in discourse. Methods of securing student interest in such issues are presented and perspectives for assessing ethicality in discourse are sketched. In addition, key ethical issues to be resolved in the composition process are explained and the use of examples to provoke discussion is described. The goal is increased student sensitivity to the ethical dimension of discourse and increased student competency in reaching ethical judgments about discourse.

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