Giving More Effective Writing Feedback to Graduate Students

Session Description

Thesis writing feedback is one of the most significant points of contact between a doctoral student and their supervisor. Doctoral writers rely on various types of feedback throughout the writing process to produce high quality scholarly work. Supervisors, however, often find the feedback cycle to be laborious, inefficient, and frustrating. In this workshop, we will discuss how to build strong feedback practices, focusing on three key aspects of supervisory writing feedback: What is said; How it is said; and When it is said. Drawing on evidence-based insights from the scholarly literature as well as practical experience working with doctoral writers, this workshop will provide supervisors a foundation for feedback processes that are more manageable and effective.