The differences between Oral and Written Communication


Writing is a fairly static form of transfer
Speaking is dynamic transfer of information.

1. Written Communication
It can be chosen with greater deliberation and thought, and the argument can be extraordinarily, sophisticated, intricate and lengthy.

Written communication always uses formal language.

In written communication the writer should choose the best and suitable words to give an expression. It is quite different with the oral communication.

2. Oral Communication
Oral communication comes only with a great deal preparation and compression.
When we use oral communication, we can’t retract what we have spoken.

Oral communication can be significantly more effective in expressing meaning to an audience. The extensive repertoire of signals available to the speaker: gesture, intonation, inflection, volume, pitch, pauses, movement, visual cues, such as appearance and a whole host of other ways to communicate meaning.

Speaker should avoid focusing on single individual within an audience. The single most important bit of evident about the audience’s attention however is eye contact. If members of audience will look back at you when you’re speaking then you have their attention, if they look away, then your contact with the audience is probably fading.

Speaker must exercise tightly and disciplined control over content.

Oral communication uses word with fewer syllables than the written language, the sentences are shorter and self referencing pronounce such us “I” are common.

Conclusion:
The upshot of these differences is that one should not think about speeches as oral presentation of a written text. Speeches are genuinely different from written pose, and one should not use the logic of writing as a basis for writing a speech. View blog reactions