Tools, Tips and Resources to Help You Write the Best Comments on Crowdholding Crowdholding Follow Jul 24, 2018 · 3 min read

Writing great, innovative comments can be challenging especially if you are not a professional writer. But do not worry, here at Crowdholding we are here to help. Below is a list of tools, tips and resources to help you write great feedback to the startups on our platform, improve your writing skills and earn more YUPs!

Research to back up your comment

One of the most important factors to make your comment stand out from the rest is to use statistics / facts. It shows the other users that you have researched the topic and you have evidence to back up your claim. Although most people go to Wikipedia for citations, we would advise finding other sources as Wikipedia can be edited by anyone and so the information could be incorrect. Below is a list of some websites you can use, but there are many.

Scholarpedia — This looks very similar to Wikipedia but has a few main differences. Scholarpedia is written by scholars. Experts must be either invited or elected before they are assigned certain topics and, although the site is still editable by anyone like a wiki, updates must first be approved before they are made final.

Google Scholar — Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From this search engine, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Scopus — Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles.

Also always check that your sources are correct and not out of date.

Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation

Even the most detailed comment can be ruined with poor spelling and grammar. Correct spelling and grammar doesn’t just make your response more accurate, it gives a feel that the user invested time and effort and allows the reader to easily flow through the writing.

There are numerous apps that can aide you when it comes to Spelling, Grammar and punctuation. Grammarly is the most well known (and the basic version is free) but there are others such as SmallSEOTools. Another way to avoid simple mistakes is to re-check / read your writing before posting.

Learn from example

One great way to see what makes a great comment is to learn from example. You can see what responses get upvoted the most on Crowdholding, another platform where you can get some inspiration is Quora. Below you can see an example of a great comment on a recent task.

The example shows:-

Structure — There were three questions asked and they separated each answer to make the response easier for the reader to follow.

Detail — A paragraph for questions 2 and 3, not just a simple one word response. Also they have added a note at the bottom referring to a previous task.

Correct — No major errors in the text making it easy to read.

Although we encourage you to read examples, do not plagiarise. This is easily spotted. Grammarly can also be used to check plagiarism.

Follow these three steps and not only will you improve your writing, but also your responses will be of a higher calibre on Crowdholding and you will receive more tokens for your answers.

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