Author Question: When you are criticizing or correcting, it is best to A) focus on what the audience members can ... (Read 52 times)

jerry coleman · **on:** Jun 24, 2018

When you are criticizing or correcting, it is best to

A) focus on what the audience members can do to improve.
B) emphasize the audience's mistakes so that they will not make the same ones again.
C) be honest and call attention to the audience's failures or shortcomings.
D) single out the guilty audience members as an example for everyone else to learn from.
E) enlist a partner to echo and affirm your negative comments.

Question 2

A euphemism is a word or phrase that is

A) possibly offensive.
B) general or abstract in meaning.
C) highly technical.
D) a milder term for one with negative connotations.
E) often difficult to understand.

ntsoane kedibone · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 24, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: A
Explanation: A) Dwelling on a person's failures does little but make the person feel bad. Since your goal is productivity, the best way to criticize is to focus on how to improve things in the future, not what went wrong in the past. Past errors should receive a lot of focus only if they offer keys in how to improve in the future.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D
Explanation: D) An example of a euphemism is to call an overweight person full figured. The phrase communicates the idea that the person is overweight without using the label of fat or overweight.