Ethical: (adjective)  Involving or expressing moral approval or disapproval.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethical

located in the back of (New York City College of Technology : English Department) in the last line of the bullet points.

“Formulate original ideas and relate them to the ideas of others by employing the conventions of ethical attribution and citation.”

While I was reading the objectives for the class I ran by this word and I’ve herd it in articles and speeches before but never truly understood the meaning. I tried using context clues to help me figure out the deeper meaning behind it but I couldn’t understand it fully even then. So I took to the dictionary to guide me on the understanding of the word. What I originally thought the meaning was before I looked it up was that of which is considered appropriate by a group. Now that I understand the word I can now broaden my horizon of understanding.