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A text written for publication, read out as it is, makes a poor talk, and a talk published as delivered makes a poor text.
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- Mary Beard British classicist, professor emerita of Classics…
But the basic rule is: if you come along to a live audience with a text ready for publication and you read it out, it will probably make for a lousy oral occasion; likewise, if you try to publish an oral presentation exactly as delivered, it will almost certainly make an unpersuasive text.
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