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Feedback as I alluded to last week is complicated. This is why there are professions just in this category, aka editors etc.. After the brief introduction to "feedforward" I decided I wanted to learn a little more one the topic. I believe that this is good way to go about feedback and the principle is a nice one to use, however it cannot be used in all cases. For instance, when instructing a class and an assignment is handed in, unless the student is unable to resubmit the assignment the feedforward approach gives him or her no help on the current assignment. Most often also the next assignment will be different and use a different way of thinking about a set material. That being said, for this class it works great. This is a creative class, so one's style or opinion should be put down because it is different than their owns. Instead just give encouragement and "tips" on how they may want to take a story next time. In the "Try Feedforward Instead of Feedba...

  Feedback from peers is a tricky thing to accomplish sometimes. Some people don't want to hurt others feelings so they may miss out on the opportunity to help others while others are not shy at all about how they feel and in some cases take critiquing too far. I have been on both ends of this chain. In most of my experience though, feedback has not been as good as it should be. We do a lot of peer reviewing in scientific writing and for in class assignments we would trade our articles and review them. Most all the time I have someone that marks mine up bad. Then when I look over it, it still seems fine to me so I submit it the way I have it and end up with a near perfect score. So in my life I have ignored peer feedback. That being said this class is different than others I have taken where this is taken place. I think I am, like the articles " Fear of Feedback " and " Why Rejection Hurts " discuss, afraid of failure so when I come in contact with feedback tha...