Identify and explain the five distinctions between oral style and written style. Explain the implications for the use of language in a speech.

What will be an ideal response?

- Oral style is simpler than written style.
- Oral style is more repetitive.
- Oral style is more informal than written style.
- Oral style is more reflexive than written style.
- Oral style has more potential for clutter.
- An important implication of all these differences is that the stylistic goals that you might aim to achieve in an essay are different from the goals you would pursue in a speech.

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