What are the characteristics of written communication?

While oral communication is natural and spontaneous, written communication requires conscious effort.

Characteristics

(i)         Written communication requires a lot of imagination and efforts. It is a creative activity.

(ii)        Written communication takes much more time than oral communication. The sender has to plan out its message and write (encode) it carefully. The message id sent and the receiver decodes it.

(iii)       Written communication has fewer cycles than oral communication which has multiple cycles.