1. The Spoken Word - Oral Presentation
The text written for presenting differs from a common text for publishing in numerous ways regarding both grammar and style. According to Koegel, the major part of people forget 95% of information in several minutes after hearing it (2008: 47); thus the text for presenting has to be written in an audience-friendly way, for example, by avoiding complex syntax and abuse of epithets or subordinate clauses, so that the audience can easily perceive the message. When presenting a written text, the word "text" becomes replaced by the word "conversation" since it is created not for the eye, rather for...
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