Ethics for editors: an analytical decision-making process

Allen, Lori; Voss, Dan

doi:10.1109/47.661631

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“…Even though the effect of culture and other factors on work values has been studied (see for example Probst et al, 1999), contemporary literature does not address how we can support the value analysis process (Allen and Voss, 1998) and incorporate the conflicting values of other stakeholders (e.g. tax-paying public, green parties, future generations) into a decision maker's value model.…”

Section: Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting societal decision making: a process perspective

Papamichail

Robertson

2003

Multi Criteria Decision Anal

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Opaque processes serve to mask the connection between cause and effect. When embedded in the political system, they contribute to the alienation of voters from that system. This article describes an approach to improve transparency of one such process, that of public decision making, in order to better engage with the electorate. The authors propose the adoption of a web-based process support system in which to construct the decision-making process such that the elements of the decision model are available at all times for public scrutiny. Two case studies are presented that emphasise the need for openness, transparency, reporting and the exploring of public values in societal decision making. The article outlines the findings of the case studies and discusses how the proposed webbased system can be used to support participative and democratic decision processes.

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Section: Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting societal decision making: a process perspective

Papamichail

Robertson

2003

Multi Criteria Decision Anal

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“…Rude [5] offers a brief overview of laws (e.g., copyright and trademark) and ethical issues (e.g., misrepresentation of data) that concern workplace editors and lists the ethical guidelines of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Allen and Voss [1] provide a comprehensive discussion of editors' ethics, distinguishing carefully between ethics and values. To help workplace editors, they devised a 6-step "value analysis process" [1, p. 60] based on "ten core values that are central to the communication profession" [1, p. 61].…”

Section: Studies On Editors and Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To help workplace editors, they devised a 6-step "value analysis process" [1, p. 60] based on "ten core values that are central to the communication profession" [1, p. 61]. Allen and Voss [1] devised these 10 values based on the ethics codes of several professional associations that focus on communication. They deemed three of these values-honesty, quality, and legality-most appropriate for editors [1, p. 62] and then applied these values to editing scenarios.…”

Section: Studies On Editors and Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the exception of Allen and Voss's [1] study, which is aimed at workplace editors, most of the discussion on ethics and technical and business communication is aimed at teaching ethics to students in technical and business communication courses. Although there are book length studies of the intersection of ethics and communication (e.g., Allen & Voss [6]; Dombrowski [7]; Markel [8]), Markel's 1997 article "Ethics and Technical Communication: A Case for Foundational Approaches" [9] offers a concise yet comprehensive analysis of two basic approaches to teaching and applying ethics: foundational and nonfoundational.…”

Section: Ethics In Technical and Business Communicationmentioning

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Examining Editor-Author Ethics: Real-World Scenarios from Interviews with Three Journal Editors

Amare

Manning

2009

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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Those who submit manuscripts to academic journals may benefit from a better understanding of how editors weigh ethics in their interactions with authors. In an attempt to ascertain and to understand editors' ethics, we interviewed 3 current academic journal editors of technical and/or business communication journals. We asked them about the ethical dilemmas they encountered while working with authors, whether the editors formally or informally followed a “code of ethics,” and if they felt obligated to maintain any ethical codes in particular. In this article, we discuss the ethical dimensions of editorial practices using specific ethical scenarios provided by these three editors. We then analyze these scenarios using traditional ethical models in our field but also in terms of a less-known but powerful model of ethical analysis originally proposed by the philosopher C. S. Peirce. We argue that Peirce's “community of inquiry” ethics model best describes these journal editors' ethics when working with authors.

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“…L. Allen and D. Voss in "Ethics for Editors: An Analytical Decision-Making Process" (1998) point out that editors often face ethical dilemmas concerning their competing responsibilities to readers, authors, and employers [2]. Allen and Voss reveal the complexity of this issue and recommend a six-step value analysis process for ranking values to identify the more significant ones to guide the resolution of ethical conflicts.…”

Section: Professional Perspectivementioning

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Ethics and Technical Communication: The Past Quarter Century

Dombrowski

2000

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

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Ethics as a topic in technical communication has grown in interest in the past quarter century as the field itself has matured. We now understand technical communication as involved in communicating not only technical information but also values, ethics, and tacit assumptions represented in goals. It also is involved in accommodating the values and ethics of its many audiences. This understanding is linked to an awareness of the social nature of all discourse and the root interconnectedness of rhetoric and ethics. This article presents an introduction and annotated bibliography of articles from technical writing and communication journals over this period, arranged in categories of professional, academic, and systematic approaches. Ethics is broadly conceived to include not only particular theories but also systems of values and principles.

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Ethics for editors: an analytical decision-making process

Cited by 4 publications

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Supporting societal decision making: a process perspective

Supporting societal decision making: a process perspective

Examining Editor-Author Ethics: Real-World Scenarios from Interviews with Three Journal Editors

Ethics and Technical Communication: The Past Quarter Century

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