The teacher who taught the class said writing down stuff usually befuddles the person who is being critical. I'll have to tell my sister about writing the comments down for posterity. That is too funny.
Now you've just given me a chance to tell you about a favorite P. G. Wodehouse plot. Gussie Finknottle, Bertie Wooster's bosom buddy, is hoping to marry Madeline Bassett, but he's so intimidated by her father, a retired magistrate, that he can't work up the nerve to ask him for permission. Jeeves, Bertie's "gentleman's personal gentleman," suggests that he think of all the things that he dislikes about Madeline's father and to generally work up a good healthy disdain for him. His idea seems to be that we do not fear those we disdain.
Things get off track, however, when Gussie decides to write down all these ripe thoughts he's having about his prospective father-in-law. After a few days he is on his way to filling a small notebook with scorching epithets and descriptions about the old man when he misplaces the notebook. Who should find the bombshell but Madeline's sneaky cousin, Stiffy Byng, who blackmails poor Gussie.
Read all about it in (I think) Code of the Woosters.