For the first exercise of the unit, your task is to make the Harold Pinter Nobel prize-giving speech informal. Re-write the speech using
the casual register of Sarah Palin and see if you can manage to
convey the same ideas in a different way. You may well find that
some of the more complex ideas become lost, but sometimes the
challenge with speech writing is precisely this: conveying complex
ideas in a style that your whole audience will be able to understand
and relate to.