constructive
(adjective)
Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.
Examples of constructive in the following topics:
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Giving Effective Criticism: Be Positive, Specific, Objective, and Constructive
- Effective criticism should be positively intended, specific, objective, and constructive in order to achieve results.
- Ideally, effective criticism should be: positively intended, specific, objective, and constructive.
- Constructive critics try to stand in the shoes of the person being criticized, and consider what things would look like from their perspective.
- Keeping this in mind will help you to construct effective critiques.
- Constructive, consciously avoiding personal attacks and blaming, insulting language and hostile language are avoided.
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Gender Bias
- Gender bias exists because of the social construction and language of gender itself; recognize it and try to avoid it when speaking.
- Gender is the social construction of a person's sex.
- Gendered communication is often culturally constructed as well, meaning that what is considered masculine or feminine in one culture may not hold true in another.
- How people express their gender often relies on the cultural constructs of the society in which they live or identify.
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Techniques for Accepting Criticism
- Ideally, effective criticism is positive, specific, objective, and constructive.
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Defining the Thesis
- Defining a thesis is essentially constructing the structural outline of your speech.
- Use the work that you have done to narrow down the scope of the topic that your speech is about; determine the purpose your speech will serve, and define a thesis to construct the remainder of it.
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Context of Culture and Gender
- Gender is a sociological construct of values, ideals, and behaviors about what it means to be either male or female, and are often regarded in terms of masculine or feminine, respectively.
- In the example above, we have both a biological, physical characteristic (sex) with a superimposed cultural construct (gender).
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Simile and Metaphor
- Additionally, you have the chance to make bold stylistic choices in your speech through the construction of creative similes and metaphors.
- Simile and metaphor are constructed of two parts: the tenor and the vehicle.
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The Importance of Stories
- Berger says human life is narratively rooted, humans construct their lives and shape their world into homes in terms of these groundings and memories.
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The Role of Transitions
- Once you have established your goal and identified your target audience, you should take the following steps to construct your presentation.
- Develop a general premise: constructing a presentation will require that you begin by developing your goal and translating it into a general premise you will state to your audience.
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Gender
- The other pair, men and women, refers to what are now generally regarded as socially constructed concepts that convey the contextually fluid cultural ideals or values of masculinity and femininity.
- In other words, as a social construct, gender is learned, symbolic, and dynamic.
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Repetition and Parallelism
- Similarly, parallelism is a structured use of repetition by using identical or equivalent constructions in corresponding clauses to express the same sentiment.
- Parallelism works the same way but without rote repetition of words or ideas and instead constructs them from similar examples.