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We're the absorber [reader/reviewer] society of Golden Quill. This Book Club operates a monthly reading cycle.
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Our goal as far as feedback goes is to both deliver and receive top-notch constructive feedback, which is why we have this university to highlight what we expect and what we will not accept when you review as an absorber of the Golden Quill Society.
Giving feedback is about finding ways to suggest improvements, not declaring a work as 'bad', and walking away from it without sharing ideas and tips on how you think it can be improved.
All new members, upon acceptance into the club, are required to read through this chapter and provide feedback to the short story at the bottom of the chapter. You are to review it exactly how we will teach you here. Your review will be revised by the moderator and if it's up to par, you can join the current or next reviewing cycle.
To recap, clubbers are to leave at least two in-line comments and one end of chapter comment. If you're missing any of these in your reviews, it counts as incomplete which in turn counts as a strike.
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When you critique a chapter, your job is to determine whether the writer accomplished what they set out to do in that chapter. You're mostly going to be working with a lot of work-in-progress and our goal as a book club is to help each other improve our work and have a winning bestseller in the end.
This brings us to language. How you say something is just as important as what you choose to say. Language and choice of words matter, they can easily turn constructive feedback into a destructive critic. Before you hit that post button, read your final feedback out loud to yourself, and make sure it's helpful, kind, and constructive.
Constructive criticism is designed to point out mistakes, and also show where and how improvements can be made. Constructive criticism is useful feedback that can help writers improve their work and that is what we do here. We can help each other without tearing each other down.
As absorbers of the Golden Quill Society, we need to learn to give and receive constructive feedback. Keep these two things in mind;
