The best way to teach—whether as an educator, employer, or parent—is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
Encouragement and approval always help people grow their innate talents, but this does not mean that we should concentrate only on praising the positive sides of a person and ignoring the negative sides. Mistakes need to be pointed out for the complete development of a person.
The primary issue with the notion is that praising only the positive sides of an individual will make the person unaware of his/her negatives. For example, if a child is brought up under parents who do not admonish the child when necessary, there is a high chance that the child will turn out to be spoiled. The child should be corrected when he/she commits a mistake like hurting one of his/her siblings. The child would not know what he/she did was wrong unless they are corrected, and hence would continue to repeat the same mistakes again. Thus, we can say that individuals should be given proper corrections when necessary for the proper growth of the individual.
The secondary issue with complimenting is that people tend to overdo it. We know any desirable thing in excess will have undesirable results. Likewise, while complimenting, if a person overdoes it, the person at the receiving end might find it patronizing. While proper encouragement is important for a person's self-confidence, supporting a person unnecessarily would cause in destroying the person's self-confidence. In addition, a person should maintain a balance while complimenting. For instance, if a math teacher likes one of his/her bright students, and always praises the students in front of other students, the other students might find himself or herself inferior to the bright student. This would make the other students to dislike math, and they would even find the math teacher being partial. On the other hand, the bright student might also find it hard since the other students would start to dislike him/her and would even call him/her teacher's pet. Thus, we can see that if compliments are not dealt with caution, it can have more negative effects than positive effects.
While both the above arguments hold true, one might say it is important for a person to praise positive actions of other and ignore the negative ones. It can be true partially, but not wholly. While there are negative sides to praising, it still holds an important part in shaping an individual. For instance, in a company if a manager is very strict and spends more time on finding the faults with every one, the employees would be reluctant to work in the company. The hard-working employees would find it very hard since their efforts are not recognized. This would ultimately result in employees quitting the company. Instead, if their minor peccadilloes are ignored and their hard work is given proper recognition, the employees would be more enthusiastic to work for the company. Hence, we can say that praising the positive sides and ignoring minor peccadilloes can have a positive effect if dealt with caution.
In sum, while praising the positive sides of an individual would help in shaping the person's personality, mistakes also need to be pointed out for his/her complete growth.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, likewise, second, so, still, thus, while, for example, for instance, in addition, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 31.0 12.4196629213 250% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2636.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 530.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97358490566 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79809637944 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74800163645 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.433962264151 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 808.2 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.4761475941 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.44 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.84 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.120720971592 0.243740707755 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0384180509866 0.0831039109588 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0605762884999 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0834409070018 0.150359130593 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0439553287318 0.0667264976115 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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