An excellent article that asks whether you are criticising or evaluating.
The information here is practical for the upcoming Toastmasters Evaluation Contest too.
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This post was written by john on March 10, 2009
Do you criticize or evaluate?
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Excellent article by Toastmaster Wilson, and I’m so glad the title of it delineates between what so easily rolls off our tongues when we give evaluations. I would like to see the word “criticism” stricken from our vocabulary, especially when it comes to offering speech evaluations. They are and in my opinion will always be a form of feedback. What a glorious word, feedback. It can and does so effectively encompass both suppportive as well as opportunistic comments to our target speakers. This word could easily replace all references to criticism (there’s just something of a negative connotation to that word).
There really is something negative to the word criticism. Shame really.