Dealing with text feedback and peer review
This workshop focuses on how to handle peer reviews and various forms of feedback on academic texts. It is designed for early-career researchers who need to revise their work following their supervisor's feedback or peer reviews and editorial comments, for example, as part of a submission to an edited volume or a journal.
While text feedback and peer reviews are very common, there is surprisingly little guidance on how to deal with these evaluations of one’s own writing, especially regarding what they mean for the text and for one’s role as an author. This is exactly the question we will address. From a writing studies perspective, something fascinating happens during this process: through the implementation of feedback, reviewers and critics effectively become "silent co-authors" of the text.
How can you deal with that? How can you integrate others' voices without losing your own? How can you deal with emotions that emerge in the process? When and how should you reject suggestions from reviewers and those providing text feedback?
Materials: Please have a text as well as its corresponding (anonymized!) review/feedback comments ready so that you can work on them and, if necessary, discuss them with another participant.
Contact: Dr. Andrea Karsten
Date: Thursday, June 11, 2026, 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. (online).
Note: We are happy to offer a bilingual format (German-English) for this workshop upon request. Please contact the instructor via email at least 10 days before the workshop date.
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