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On feedback given to students, instructors, or other individuals in an academic setting on their performance.

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First paper, conference feedback - at all if rejected?

You can expect to get feedback in any case. Typically, more feedback is provided if the contribution is rejected, as long as it actually underwent peer review. … The quality of the feedback that you receive may vary quite a bit, though. …
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Professor is upset about student comments about her lectures. What should I do?

There is an uncomfortable truth hidden in these items of feedback - perhaps the lectures as they are given now are useless? … However, as I said, this can come across as somewhat patronising and offensive, so I would not suggest giving her any feedback unsolicited, especially if you are not close or already a mentor to her. …
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Public accountability for academic work

Finally, it should be noted that the feedback achieved by these rankings is going to be very slow. …
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Can I submit an article just for the sake of useful feedback?

Can I submit an article just for the sake of useful feedback? Yes and no. … You will get feedback, but you may not get useful feedback. Reviews fundamentally tend to assess the current state of a research project. …
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How can I get useful feedback when collaborating on research proposals?

Answer 1: Ask for explicit feedback (maybe after the deadline is passed and crunch time is over). … Giving feedback on your work is part of the implicit deal that a senior person enters when enlisting the help of a PhD student on things like that. …
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How to save a literature review?

It is indeed considered best practice nowadays to search publication databases for literature rather than only individual journals or conferences, typically combined with some snowballing. Scientific …
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How to reply to students' emails that show anger about their mark?

There is a time and place to give a student detailed feedback, but when they are currently raging isn't it. Stay with the facts. Scrub all subjectivity from your own answer. …
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How should I deal with very negative feedback from some students?

If you ask for anonymous feedback, you will need to be prepared for things that you don't want to hear. … TL;DR: In short, you will need to learn to not take the feedback personally. …
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Is it safe for a student to give negative feedback in student evaluations?

At no point in the process was I ever told which student gave which feedback. … If I were giving some really negative feedback I would try to keep it general enough that at least a handful of students could have written the same comment. …
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How to to deal with advisor's criticism of my writing?

Tell them what you told us - that their barrage of negative feedback is hampering your motivation and productivity, and that you would have an easier time incorporating their feedback if they could find … " style of feedback works better for most people but are unable to change). …
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How do researchers send unsolicited emails asking for feedback on their works?

Essentially, you have three challenges that work against you receiving an answer to this mail: You need to avoid your mail to appear like academic spam. Your email draft is rather good in that sense …
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Best practices to manage the workflow with your thesis committee (Ph.D.)?

Note that you still need to inform your supervisors when you specifically want feedback and on what, even when everybody has access to your draft you should not assume that they are just constantly monitoring … Options 1 and 2 slow you down too much, and option 3 is honestly kind of obnoxious for your supervisors (knowing that they are likely spending time on feedback that two other people are also giving). …
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