The Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing. An essay is written to be read by people whereas a speech is written to be delivered by a speaker with an audience listening to him. Writing a speech and writing an essay are two different experiences. The structure of an essay and a speech might be similar but the tone and choice of words is vastly different. CORE is a not-for-profit service delivered by the Open University and Jisc . Examines the cognitive processes associated with speech and writing. College Composition and Communication, v36 n3 p283-303 Oct 1985. Writing about CORE? Complex vs Simple The purpose of this report is to outline the differences between speech and writing in different contexts. Speech and writing serve different purposes and can be understood by examining important differences between the two. This contrast between the two media is reinforced when we turn to the sto- While both the speech writer and the essay writer communicate information to a live audience or reading audience, the steps the writers go through to create the final version require varying methods, such as the choice of … Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing 285 about, and from the tendency in speech to rely on concrete and experiential modes of discourse. Elbow, Peter. Although speech and writing are the main modes of language, both are not always used. As Havelock emphasizes, writing helps to separate the knower from the known. Discover our research outputs and cite our work. In this article we look at the main differences between a speech and the written word.