It is easier to receive, than to give feedback

One realization became immediately clear to me after Saturday’s class.  It is it much easier to receive feedback, than it is to give it.  I found it easy to receive feedback for several reasons. I trusted the person giving the feedback.  We have worked together and I respect her opinion, and therefore I actually appreciated the feedback she gave.  Giving feedback was much more difficult.  It is hard to judge someone else’s writing, especially if they are writing about a personal situation.  Another theme that resonated with me was the concept of “scholarly writing.”  That term came up a lot and I think in my mind, scholarly = boring.  Saturday was the first time where I reconciled in my mind that scholarly writing still needs to be engaging for the reader.

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