When people are giving feedback to other people’s work, is it better to give positive ones first or to give negative ones first?
Giving feedback is very common in our daily life. For instance, a professor gives feedbacks to students’ homework assignments, a supervisor giving feedbacks to subordinates’ monthly reports, a project manager gives feedback to a coworker’s planning scheme. In such cases, the sequence of giving positive feedbacks and negative ones matters. In my opinion, it is always the right choice to point out positive ones first. My reasons and examples are given below.
Employees feel their jobs are respected when they receive positive feedback in the first place. One way to show an employee your respect is to credit his work. After being praised, an employee will think that his job is worthwhile, and works even harder the next time. Take my first internship experience, for instance, I stayed up late for several days to complete a monthly report. Although by the deadline, there were still some errors left uncorrected, my supervisor praised me for my industriousness and the format of the report. When hearing such feedbacks, I felt my work has been respected and I should work harder next month.
Coworkers will be in a good mood when receiving positive feedback first. A positive team environment is essential when it comes to the success of a project. Therefore, one should always give positive feedback first so that no one will be upset. Take a new product introduction project that I worked with 3 years ago for example. The project leader is an arrogant, impatient, 40-year-old male, he always criticized me for my bad performance and lack of experience despite I have tried my best. I felt really nervous and unconfident during that time. My coworkers were all afraid of him, and our team environment is bad. Our project failed and our team was quickly disbanded.
Giving positive feedbacks in the first place makes it easier to ask for further improvements. The purpose of giving feedback is not only about praising or criticizing but also about providing recommendations on revisions. After praising the work, it couldn’t be more natural to make it better, to pursue perfection, and the employee will happily accept this advice.
To sum up, giving positive feedbacks first is a better option than giving negative feedbacks first. Giving positive feedback will make the employees feel respected, happy, and willing to make further improvements.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, really, so, still, therefore, while, for example, for instance, in my opinion, to sum up, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 52.1666666667 73% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1930.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 385.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01298701299 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71721832503 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 212.727598566 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509090909091 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 600.3 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 9.59856630824 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 1.0 20.6003584229 5% => 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: 385.0 20.1344086022 1912% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 0.0 48.9658058833 0% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 1930.0 100.406767564 1922% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 385.0 20.6045352989 1869% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 130.0 5.45110844103 2385% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 11.8709677419 8% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.411290063283 0.236089414692 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.411290063283 0.076458572812 538% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0 0.0737576698707 0% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.276442805962 0.150856017488 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11252834376 0.0645574589148 174% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 194.7 11.7677419355 1655% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -319.3 58.1214874552 -549% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 0.0 6.10430107527 0% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 153.4 10.1575268817 1510% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 13.26 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 25.93 8.01818996416 323% => Dale chall readability score is high.
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 53.0 10.002688172 530% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 156.0 10.0537634409 1552% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 26.0 10.247311828 254% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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