What is the difference between writing and speaking

Writing requires knowledge of the alphabet and involves coherence, detail, and clarity in expression. It also requires a form of organization, standard, and polish. With writing, there is always a struggle for what to say and how to say it properly.

The struggle affects the delayed feedback or response time. Writing leaves a record since it requires a material or channel for expression. Writing also requires more information. It has related skills and processes that include reading, researching, editing, and publishing.

Writing is a skill that must be practiced constantly for improvement. Writing requires a background in education. Education helps in expressing words in symbols and forming a logical sequence. Education also provides the rules and standards in writing. Correcting writing mistakes is also learned by educating students and making them learn about the mistakes. Writing is more restricted and incorporates standards in forms of grammar, structure, spelling, and vocabulary.

There are parameters on what is good writing although different people have different interpretations of the parameters. Writing is a process. It denotes progression from one stage to another.

It usually begins with an idea and execution of all related skills and processes. Publishing is the culminating event of a writing process. Writing comes in many forms like articles, essays, novels, short stories, theses, and other publishable materials. Talking and writing are two skills under human communication. Both skills are involved in two distinct branches of communication.

Talking falls under oral communication while writing is under written communication. One common ground of both skills is language. Talking and writing use language to communicate effectively with another person.

Plus, complex sentences can be made easier to read with the right punctuation. However, complex sentences are deadly for your speaking. They flatten your delivery, causing you to drone on and on. In addition, speaking requires something fundamental that writing does not: breathing. Finally, writing and speaking differ in terms of the importance of word choice. In writing, you usually want to choose your words very carefully, as people can go back and re-read. Just as you remember the melodies of songs, not the specific notes, your audience will remember your ideas, not your specific words.

You can absolutely be both a great writer and a great speaker. Despite this restriction, speaking does have the advantage that the speaker receives instant feedback from the listener. The speaker can probably see immediately if the listener is bored or does not understand something, and can then modify what he or she is saying.

When we write, our words are usually read by another person in a different place and at a different time. Indeed, they can be read by many other people, anywhere and at any time. And the people reading our words, can do so at their leisure, slowly or fast. They can re-read what we write, too. But the writer cannot receive immediate feedback and cannot easily change what has been written. In the past, only a small number of people could write, but almost everybody could speak. Because their words were not widely recorded, there were many variations in the way they spoke, with different vocabulary and dialects in different regions.

Today, almost everybody can speak and write. Because writing is recorded and more permanent, this has influenced the way that people speak, so that many regional dialects and words have disappeared. It may seem that there are already too many differences that have to be learned, but without writing there would be far more differences, even between, for example, British and American English.

So writing has had an important influence on speaking. But speaking can also influence writing. For example, most new words enter a language through speaking. Some of them do not live long. If you begin to see these words in writing it usually means that they have become "real words" within the language and have a certain amount of permanence.

Modern inventions such as sound recording, telephone, radio, television, fax or email have made or are making an important impact on both speaking and writing.

To some extent, the divisions between speaking and writing are becoming blurred. Emails are often written in a much less formal way than is usual in writing. With voice recording, for example, it has for a long time been possible to speak to somebody who is not in the same place or time as you even though this is a one-way communication: we can speak or listen, but not interact. With the telephone and radiotelephone, however, it became possible for two people to carry on a conversation while not being in the same place.