<aside> ⚡ Giving feedback is not easy. Here’s a checklist to help you give constructive feedback.

Writing is a personal, creative endeavor. There isn’t a “right answer.” However, this checklist covers some basic principles for great writing.

Read How to Give Feedback and How to Receive Feedback for additional support.

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The Feedback Guide will help you to answer these questions:

1️⃣ What’s the main point?

2️⃣ What’s a strength?

3️⃣ What’s an improvement?

• Go Deeper on these questions:

Feedback Guide

Basics

• [ ] Do you clearly understand the main point of the post?

  • [ ] Do you and the writer agree on the main point? (If you disagree with the writer, there is an opportunity to make it more clear!)
  • [ ] What was the reason the writer wrote this post?
    • Understand the Why (open for more):

• [ ] Is the writing clear and concise?

  • [ ] Does the writer use less than 30 words per sentence?
  • [ ] Does the writer use concise words? (ex: replace “due to the fact that" with "because")
  • [ ] Does the writer avoid long, compound sentences?
  • [ ] Does the writer avoid qualifiers like “I think” and “In my opinion”?

• [ ] Is the writing easy to read?

  • [ ] Does the writer take advantage of spacing, headings, or bullet points?
  • [ ] Does the writer add pictures or diagrams to the post?
  • [ ] Does the writer avoid large “walls of text”

• [ ] Does the writer give specific examples or data to support their writing?

  • [ ] Does the writing pass the ChatGPT Test (could an AI have written this?)
    • [ ] Pass the ChatGPT Test with data, sources, examples, and personal anecdotes
  • [ ] Does the writer hyperlink or cite their sources?
  • [ ] Does the writer avoid “fluffy” adjectives like extremely, very, exponentially