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ANOVA
df SS MS F Significance F
Regression 1 800.389 800.389 14.5364 0.008836
Residual 6 330.366 55.061
Total 7 1130.755

These analyses reveal significant similarity in sentence length across
oral and conversational writing modes. Conversely, and as expected, there is
a low (28.4%) correlation on sentence length between email and written text,
from which we reject the null hypothesis that they are from similar
populations (or lengths):

Table 7. Regression Analysis of Sentence Length Ranges - Email and Texts
Regression Statistics
Multiple R 0.532924
R Square 0.284008
Adjusted R Square 0.164676
Standard Error 11.616156
Observations 8

ANOVA
df SS MS F Significance F
Regression 1 321.144 321.144 2.37998 0.173840504
Residual 6 809.610 134.935
Total 7 1130.755

In summary, this appears to demonstrate how much more similar, in
terms of length of utterance, emails and blogs are to spoken genres than to
written texts, for which reason I have in this discussion termed this class of
expression, created materially as text but possessing essential qualities of
speech, conversational writing.
One structural point about blog stylistics bears consideration: the
notion of sentence must be somewhat redefined in this genre, in response to
its expanded use. The blog sentence, such as it is, is deployed as a
“traditional” declarative sentence as often as it is pressed into something
serving the role of caption, that is, an utterance that is not a sentence but a
verbal adjunct to reinforce an associated idea or graphic. Thus, what appear
under normal grammatical conditions to be nonsensical fragments like
“Rewards of some hard digging” or “gander mountain credit card” in fact