Responding and Getting Response

Fears

1. What is your biggest fear about giving feedback to other students about their writing?

The responses of the students to this question fell into five categories (plus the usual 'other' category). The first category contains over 40% of the total comments, and the top two categories contain almost two-thirds of the total comments.


Collection of Actual Comments

Below are the actual comments of the students. The context surrounding some comments has been removed to leave just the actual 'fear' expressed, but the words of the students have not been changed.

Other comments:

I fear that I might offend...

I don't know enough myself...

I fear that my comments might be misinterpreted...

I fear conflict...

I don't want to discourage others...