Learning how to give constructive feedback on writing is a valuable communication skill. Understanding the difference between helpful and unhelpful feedback is wisdom you can apply in other areas of life – in relationships; when a friend asks your honest opinion. Learn how to give sensitive, use...
Match your feedback to the writing stage. Early in a project’s development, provide feedback on the big picture: how well the structure achieves its purpose and meets audience needs, and so on. For projects that are farther along, style and clarity are fair game. If something is about t...
writing toolsCurrent writing support tools tend to focus on assessing final or intermediate products, rather than the writing process. However, sensing technologies, such as keystroke logging , can enable provision of automated feedback during, and on aspects of, the writing process. Despite this ...
Remember, the recipient of your feedback can’t hear the tonal nuances in your voice as they would during an in-person conversation. The words you use and the way it’s structured all work together to convey your tone in writing. When delivering negative feedback, it’s important that you...
Welcome to Oxford Online English! 欢迎来到牛津大学在线英语课程。 In this lesson, you can learn how to give and respond to feedback in a professional environment. 在本课程中,你将要学习如何在职场环境中给出和回复反馈。 You'll see different ways to give positive or negative feedback, and how ...
Give feedback on the work of at least two writing partners Here, you're moving from grand dreams to simple, measurable goals that are within your control and that can be accomplished within a specific time frame with hard work. We're moving from the lofty goal to the achievable goal, the...
I always thought I had a knack for giving useful writing feedback—that is, until a writer friend asked for my thoughts on her novel-in-progress. I gave them, pointing out where her plot seemed to lag and the characters felt flat. Surely, I thought, she would be grateful for my ...
When you’re giving feedback, it’s important to keep in mind that no one likes to be told they’re doing a bad job. Make sure you give an equal amount to positive feedback to balance out anything negative. 3 All good feedback shares a few key elements. First, it should help acc...
If we frame feedback as an invitation to solve problems collaboratively, we achieve better short-term results while bolstering our relationship with others.
1) Feedback is a late-stage issue. This part of the process came to mind as we were reading Keith Frankel’sexcellent post on defining what’s ‘good enough,’when under time constraints and pressure to deliver. Oftentimes feedback is sought at the end of the writing process, when a dr...