http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/2008/03/full-teacups-of-ink.html except how truly awesome I am Sat, 6 Mar 2010 01:47:26 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/2008/03/full-teacups-of-ink.html/comment-page-1#comment-66040 Tammy Lenski Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:12:54 +0000 http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/2008/03/full-teacups-of-ink.html#comment-66040 Diane, loved this post. It's on target for any kind of feedback receiving. As I read your description of the way some writers start arguing back when others are giving feedback, I was reminded of a few of my graduate mediation students over the years who tended toward the same reaction. It does take the teacher or workshop leader to make explicit that they're inviting feedback receivers to try on an idea before accepting or rejecting it, and that can make a difference. I also think the way the feedback's given matters. My students had a tough time hearing things like, "You should have done this..." but feedback could get in when the feedback-giver said things like, "When you said that, I was pretty surprised because..." or "I couldn't track where you were heading with that line of questions." Diane, loved this post. It’s on target for any kind of feedback receiving. As I read your description of the way some writers start arguing back when others are giving feedback, I was reminded of a few of my graduate mediation students over the years who tended toward the same reaction. It does take the teacher or workshop leader to make explicit that they’re inviting feedback receivers to try on an idea before accepting or rejecting it, and that can make a difference. I also think the way the feedback’s given matters. My students had a tough time hearing things like, “You should have done this…” but feedback could get in when the feedback-giver said things like, “When you said that, I was pretty surprised because…” or “I couldn’t track where you were heading with that line of questions.”

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