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Issues of lexical density and organising content are dealt with in this chapter. Here, we step up to another level of the discourse to identify organisation principles that increase the flow between consecutive sentences. Structures specific to oratory that provide one-off instances of high lexical density (e.g. use of modifiers) are also examined.

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Rossette-Crake, F. (2019). Managing Information. In: Public Speaking and the New Oratory. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22086-0_13

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