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1. Oral
- More personal and informal
- makes immediate impact
- Provides opportunity for interaction and feedback
- Helps in immediate correction
- Better for conveying feelings and emotions
- Demands ability to think coherently
- A word once uttered can be taken back
- Hard to control voice pitch and tone especially under stress, excitement or anger
- Very difficult to be conscious of our body language
2. Written
- Better for complex and difficult subjects, facts etc.
- Better for keeping records
- Provides opportunity to refer back
- Can be read at receiver's convenience
- Can be revised before sending
- Can be circulated
- Never know if the message is ever read
- Impersonal an remote
- Immediate feedback is not available
- Reader does not get the non verbal cues that help in total interpretation
- Many do not like reading at all
- Time consuming
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