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?
It is no secret that it is of paramount importance to give feedback to colleagues and classmates to encourage them to improve their work for the possible outcomes. The importance in this regard often leads to serious controversies as to whether it is better to give positive comments first or rather state the negative ones first. Personally, though, I utterly subscribe to this idea that it is by far better to give positive comments first. To support this, there are several reasons, two of dominant which, are discussed in detail in the following.
My first reason is a little bit personal. By giving the positive comment first, you introduce yourself as a nice person. Ever since I was a little kid, it was critically important for me to portray myself as a warm and kind guy and for me, to be loved is crucial. Otherwise, I might fall into the trap of feeling unworthy, and overthinking on this matter propels me to the downward spiral of depression. Take my personal experience as a compelling evidence of this. Back in the days of high school, as I was a top student, my math teacher asked me to help students to solve their math problems. Unfortunately, due to the lack of experience in this regard, although I realized that regardless of the results, they gave their all to solve the problems, my behavior was so harsh that I left a very bad impression on them and as a consequence, I lost a few good friends as they thought I am an arrogant guy who had looked down on them. Although I tried to ask for their forgiveness nothing changed. Obviously, I don't want something like this to ever happen to me or anyone again.
Furthermore, when you give the positive comment first, you are more likely to have the trust of that person. To put it differently, by giving positive feedback first, you are implicitly telling her that I value your job and it was absolutely good. In this scenario, she might drop her guard and unconsciously think of you as a trustworthy person. If you put your best foot forward first, you assure the person you are talking to that you are on her side and the succeeding negative are not in any way a mean to undermine your work, but to perfect it. A recent research conducted at the Sharif University of Technology yields several statistics one of which suggests that in such cases, it is by far better to tell the person you are talking to the good comment first as she is more likely to feel your support at the beginning. Therefore, the negative comments look more friendly. This paints a vivid portrait of the importance of giving the positive feedback first.
To wrap it up, contemplating on what was discussed above, I am of the strong conviction that it is better to give the good feedback first because by doing this, you depict yourself as a friendly and good person, and because giving the good comment first helps you to have the trust of the person you are dealing with.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 232, Rule ID: WHETHER[6]
Message: Can you shorten this phrase to just 'whether', or rephrase the sentence to avoid "as to"?
Suggestion: whether
...rd often leads to serious controversies as to whether it is better to give positive comments ...
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Line 2, column 22, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...in the following. My first reason is a little bit personal. By giving the positive commen...
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Line 2, column 1008, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...rgiveness nothing changed. Obviously, I dont want something like this to ever happen...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, look, so, therefore, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 9.8082437276 20% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 85.0 43.0788530466 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 52.1666666667 142% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2397.0 1977.66487455 121% => OK
No of words: 523.0 407.700716846 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.58317399618 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69279200183 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.478011472275 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 749.7 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 9.59856630824 198% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 81.2124394256 48.9658058833 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.142857143 100.406767564 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9047619048 20.6045352989 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.61904761905 5.45110844103 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.410643796558 0.236089414692 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134331670348 0.076458572812 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.129939358852 0.0737576698707 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.269816326845 0.150856017488 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.129883731156 0.0645574589148 201% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 11.7677419355 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.58 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.82 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 86.8835125448 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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