How to Give More Effective Writing Feedback to Graduate Students: Faculty Workshop

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. 

Facilitators: 

Dr Rachael Cayley, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Graduate Centre for Academic Communication and Director of the Centre for Graduate Professional Development in the School of Graduate Studies. 

Dr Fiona Coll, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Institute for Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and Graduate Centre for Academic Communication in the School of Graduate Studies.  

Dr Daniel Aureliano Newman, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of English and Director of Graduate Writing Support, Faculty of Arts & Science. 

This workshop is intended for faculty who have graduate student supervision responsibilities, including status-only faculty.