The phrase "a helpful criticism" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to feedback or comments that are intended to improve someone's work or performance.
Example: "I appreciate your input; that was a helpful criticism that will guide me in my revisions."
Alternatives: "constructive feedback" or "useful critique".
Don't be offended at any helpful criticism, this advice may help you the next time you draw.
For early career scientists to become the competent and fair reviewers of the future they need to be actively participating in the peer-review process, be explicitly taught analytical writing skills and effectively mentored in how to articulate objective and, above all, helpful criticism.
The most familiar objection leveled at "Mass" these days is that it has dated badly, trapped in the quaint radical-chic, flower-child age that spawned it: not an especially helpful criticism.
When making your comments on your own artwork, try to be detailed on how you made it and what you think of it because this will allow you to give the reader a better perspective of what you think of the art, also giving them a guide to help them create their helpful criticism.
Thank you very much for the constructive and helpful criticism, which has helped us to connect our findings better to existing literature and articulate more clearly the novel insights that can be obtained from longitudinal whole genome deep sequencing.
Acknowledgements: I would like to thank the students in my Criminal Justice Seminar (Shrinking the Carceral State) at Berkeley Law for giving me extremely helpful criticism of an earlier draft of this statement.
We thank R. Elkon and Y.Groner for most useful comments and a reviewer for most constructive and helpful criticism and suggestions.
I honestly don't know what I could have offered her back then in terms of helpful criticism, but that process was like an apprenticeship for me.
She makes the insult sound like something the headmistress should be grateful for, or at least not complain about a helpful criticism wrapped in practical advice.
We thank David Coppola, David Fitzpatrick, Don Katz, Tom Polger, Len White and Mark Williams for helpful criticism.
