If you are required to give feedback about your classmates/colleagues (work or performance), would you like to give positive comments or negative comments first?
Without a shadow of doubt, the way that we express our feelings towards others’ actions can play a prominent role, in the way, in which they would process the information. Some people are proponents of the claim that while giving feedback, we should start by pointing out the negative comments and only then give positive comments; however, others, hold the opposite perspective and believe that while giving feedback, we should start by uttering positive points and then talk about the negative aspects. The idea, to which I subscribe, is the latter one. My viewpoint is based on quite a few reasons, two compelling ones of which have been elaborated upon hereunder.
The first vital point to bear in mind is that if we start to give positive comments first while giving feedback, it would make the person who is getting feedback more confident about himself. Most of the time, getting negative comments for our actions, makes us feel as if we are incapable of doing the things, which we are supposed to do. Moreover, when someone gets to know that he is doing a good job while having a couple of mistakes, it is more likely that he would try to work on his flaws, as he is confident of himself and knows that he can perform even better of himself. My own experience is a good example of this matter. When I started my first job, I was extremely stressed, for I did not know if I was doing a good job or not. Additionally, this bad feeling made me nervous all the time and I felt as if it was impotent in my job. As the end of the first month came, my boss came to me to talk about my performance. As he started to give his feedback, he gave the positive comments first and it made me a lot more confident about myself.
The second noteworthy reason is that when we start to give feedback by pointing out negative facets first, people might not want to hear what we are actually saying, as they become defensive towards the reviewer. Moreover, the goal of giving feedback is to consider everything reasonably and it is really hard for some people to think logically, while they are getting offensive. A case in point is my friend who always had a lot of problems with being criticized. Once his manager was giving him feedback about his performance and he started by stating the negative points and since my friend did not like to be criticized, he became defensive and it ended up in a fight, as he considered the feedback as a personal attack. Had his boss not started reviewing my friend’s performance by the bad parts, he might not have gotten defensive about the feedback.
In short, all the aforementioned reasons lead us to the conclusion that while giving feedback about someone’s action it is better to start by giving positive comments first, for it can make the one who is getting the feedback more confident of himself and it can eliminate the potential possibility of getting defensive.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, however, if, moreover, really, second, so, then, while, in short
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 15.1003584229 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 74.0 43.0788530466 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2508.0 1977.66487455 127% => OK
No of words: 519.0 407.700716846 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8323699422 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84612287641 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468208092486 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 752.4 618.680645161 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 34.0 20.1344086022 169% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 124.459792704 48.9658058833 254% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 167.2 100.406767564 167% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.6 20.6045352989 168% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.4 5.45110844103 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.277018695734 0.236089414692 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.091639172782 0.076458572812 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0923381196702 0.0737576698707 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191954873275 0.150856017488 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0233155439935 0.0645574589148 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 11.7677419355 158% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.89 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 10.1575268817 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.33 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 86.8835125448 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 10.0537634409 155% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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