mmunication while writing is used when the sender and receiver are separated by some combination of time and distance. Writing, unlike face-to-face speech, is almost invariably planned. The writer's presentation says Baron (1981), is generally more cautiously and reflectively formulated than that of the speaker. Consequently, it is predictable that written language is generally stylistically more formal than spoken language.
Ellis (1992) has pointed out that when written communication is examined by linguists, what tends to emerge is the recognition of a greater emphasis on coherence in discourse itself. Writing enables the communicator to select a form of topicality or topic content as it is expressed in propositions, schemes, lexical items, issues and events, and so forth. In written language, the paragraph is the most identifiable demarcation of a topic. There is a strong visual component to all written language and paragraphs in particular, given that they have clearly identifiable beginnings and endings and utilize visual features to ensur
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