The way a message is delivered is often more important than the message itself

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The way a message is delivered is often more important than the message itself.

Non-verbals such as body language play a larger role in communication than the actual message itself. While being able to interpret the message is necessary for the exchange of communication, how the message is delivered, through non-verbals, plays a more pivot role in how well the message is received. Similar to a picture is worth a thousand words, nonverbals such as posture and facial expressions can say more to a person than the words used. It is clear that how a message is received is more important than the message itself.

No matter how positive the news may be, conveying a message with negative facial expressions will send mixed signals to the receiver. This will result in a dilution or even complete misunderstanding of the message. For example, one of the most basic exchanges that one can have with another person is the quick "How are you doing?" The response to that message is usually a quick "good" or "fine," but if you look closely at facial features like their eyes, mouth, and even forehead you can get the real answer to that message.

Similar to facial expressions, posture is vital to the delivery of a message. A person can easily lie with words, but it is much harder to deceive the receiver of the message with body language. Displaying posture that signifies a closed-off position like being hunched over or folding your arms can signal that a person is uncomfortable. These signals are easily identifiable and are picked up by the receiver even if they are not consciously aware of it. It is much easier to deceive someone with body language than with words.

Amy Cuddy, presented at a TED conference about how body language not only influences those around us, but also ourselves. She cited one of her studies that showed subjects who did power postures, like arms wide or on their hips, scored better on an interview than those who didn't. These subjects didn’t speak at all. Body language is so pivotal in the interpretation of a message that it can even influence our own judgment and performance.

Ultimately, what you say pales in comparison to how you say it. The interpretation of a message is much more than just verbal. Body language and facial expression can tell one story, usually the true story even if your words are saying something else.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, well, while, for example, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1940.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 395.0 442.535393258 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91139240506 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45809453852 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88070341603 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501265822785 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 623.7 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.6410930765 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.105263158 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7894736842 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.31578947368 5.21951772744 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241727242788 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0937380095883 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.143259160629 0.0758088955206 189% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141527863864 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.140814793387 0.0667264976115 211% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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