Peer Review Survey Responses
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[edit] Biggest fear about giving feedback to others
[edit] I am not competent to give criticism. (17 comments)
- I will give bad advice
- I won't be able to think of anything to say
- Getting off topic
- My ideas won't be helpful
- Misguided criticism
- I will misunderstand their writing
- Not having a suitable response
- Biased feedback
- That I will sound pretentious
- I will use incorrect grammar
- It is difficult for me to express what I felt was incorrect in a person's ideas
- Being completely useless
- Being wrong in my criticism
- I am not a good judge of others
- That I don't know what I'm talking about
- That I can't be helpful or specific enough
- Not being concise -- clear and to the point
[edit] They will be offended or hurt. (13 comments)
- That they will be offended
- Not wanting to make someone upset
- Being hated by them
- They will take offense
- Generating negativity
- Review retaliation
- Not honest
- That they will be offended
- That they take it as a personal attack
- Being taken personally
- Hurting their feelings
- That they will take offense
- Offending them
[edit] They will misunderstand my criticism. (9 comments)
- They will take constructive criticism as something negative
- I don't want them to mis-interpret my critiques
- That the feedback will be misinterpreted
- That it will be misunderstood
- That my comments are unclear
- Them hearing my constructive criticism as too harsh
- Not understanding what I'm saying
- That they won't understand what I'm trying to say
- That they will misunderstand my constructive criticism
[edit] I will be too harsh. (5 comments)
- Being too harsh about places for improvement
- I'll be offensive
- Being too harsh or critical
- That they can take it
- Not being tactful; being too blunt
[edit] They will ignore me. (2 comments)
- They won't agree with it and/or brush it off
- Resistance of others to hearing how to improve
[edit] Other (1 comment) =
- Having time to think and thoughtfully respond
[edit] Biggest fear about receiving feedback from others
[edit] I am not confident about my writing. (11 comments)
- They won't want to give feedback because it needs so much improvement
- I'm shy, so sharing my thoughts with others is hard
- Low self esteem
- My work may turn out not to be as good as I thought
- I don't like having other people read anything I write
- Writing a terrible paper and looking stupid
- That they will think my points aren't good
- Feeling dumb
- Exposure of my ideas
- That I don't know what I'm talking about
- Being told I was all wrong -- but I wan't to know
- That people will point out my poor math skills
[edit] Their responses aren't helpful. (11 comments)
- That they won't take time to think and provide thoughtful responses.
- Getting off topic
- That it won't be useful
- Tangents
- Getting feedback that is unproductive
- Comments that are not meaningful
- That it won't be helpful
- Ineffectiveness
- That the feedback won't be sufficient to help me improve
- People will focus on grammar
- That they won't respond
[edit] They misunderstood my writing. (6 comments)
- They won't understand my writing
- Ineffective communication skills
- Feeling misunderstood
- Total lack of understanding
- They won't understand my ideas
- That people will misunderstand my writing
[edit] I will be offended. (4 comments)
- I will take offense
- Getting mad
- That I will be offended
- That I take it too personally
[edit] They will be too harsh. (4 comments)
- They will be too harsh
- Harsh or mocking criticism
- That they will be too harsh
- Judgemental feedback
[edit] I will misunderstand their responses. (4 comments)
- I will misunderstand their writing
- Not understanding them
- I will not understand what they mean
- That I won't take the criticism seriously
[edit] That people will not be honest (3 comments)
- That it will feel forced
- That they are afraid to be critical
- That they will sugarcoat things
[edit] Biggest barrier to giving feedback
[edit] Skill (11 comments)
- Being uncertain about where it's appropriate to share constructive criticism
- Effectively communicating change that can happen without putting words in someone's mouth
- I am not confident
- Finding proper words to portray constructive criticism
- Not knowing what to say
- Saying it in a way that is nice and helpful
- Inability to articulate your advice
- How to give constructive criticism
- Not enough practice
- My lack of ability to write well
- Not knowing what I'm supposed to give feedback on
[edit] Worrying about hurting people's feelings (11 comments)
- Worrying about what people will think
- Fear of other's reactions
- I don't like to pick out the negatives in people
- People not wanting to hurt each other's feelings
- Not hurting people's feelings
- Being afraid of hurting someone's feelings
- Not wanting to offend people
- Being afraid of hurting someone's feelings
- Don't want to offend of hurt their feelings
- People's defense mechanisms
- Nobody wants to hurt anyone's feelings
[edit] Honesty and Trust (7 comments)
- Honesty
- Trust
- Not being comfortable with each other
- Trust
- Caring -- have enough time to care and consider everything in the writing
- Feeling scared to be honest
- Not being honest
[edit] Other (7 comments)
- Lack of familiarity with the subject matter
- Tangents
- Stubborness or closed-mindedness
- Being careless
- Shyness
- Disinterest
- Disinterest
[edit] Understanding (5 comments)
- Failure to convey/receive the main point
- Lack of shared perspective
- Comprehension, language, communication
- Letting my own point of view overtake what I am reading
- Cultural differences in how people communicate
[edit] Time (4 comments)
- Time
- Not having enough time
- Time
- Time
[edit] Most important thing you want from others
[edit] Honesty (17 comments)
- Honesty
- Honesty
- Honesty
- Honest opinion
- The truth
- Honesty constructively
- Honesty
- Brutal honesty
- Honesty
- Honesty
- Honesty
- Honesty
- Honesty
- Honesty
- Honesty
- I want to know if I made a mistake so I can correct it
- If something's off, I'd like to be told of it.
[edit] Critique me, constructively. (9 comments)
- Critical perspective
- Constructive criticism
- Advice that will help me improve and learn from my mistakes
- Constructive criticism
- How to improve, but in a nice way
- What I should change or improve
- Gentle, constructive criticism
- Constructive discussion
- What could be clearer/better?
[edit] Respond to my ideas. (9 comments)
- Where my writing did or did not lead them
- Which ideas are relevant and important to expand on and which might be a dead end
- It helps when someone asks questions about what I mean
- Help me bettter convey my ideas to others
- Possible other ways of explaining my ideas
- Encouragement to develop ideas
- Some feedback that stretches my limits and challenges the thought -- learning comes out of it
- Help me figure out how to organize my ideas
- Solid feedback about my analysis
[edit] Other (12 comments)
- A genuine effort
- Help working on my style
- Congruency
- New perspective
- Learn by seeing others' perspectives
- Techniques
- Consistency
- Clarity
- Open mind
- I just want to improve
- A specific format I learned last quarter
- Consideration and sharing
[edit] Support me. (3 comments)
- Approval and validation
- To feel supported
- What's the positive?
