So, you’ve received your writing feedback. Now what?

Here’s our step-by-step guide to reading your feedback and incorporating it into your own work.

Step 1: Open your reviewed document in your Studiosity account.

Step 2: Under 'Your feedback' in the top right is your summary. Read this first, as it will give you a good overall view of the feedback you have received throughout your work, and where your strengths and weaknesses are.

Step 3: Next, go to your main body of work. Click on the highlighted areas, and you will see the corresponding comment on the side bar. These are colour-coded by area of feedback, including:

We recommend looking at structure first, followed by critical thinking, as these are the topics that have the biggest impact on your overall piece of writing.

Step 4: Open your original document, go through each comment provided to you in your feedback, and think about what changes you need to make throughout your document. Look at each comment, and see if you can find other instances of this in your work.

Does the feedback suggest you need to cite your work? If so, add a citation, and look for other places in your work you may need to add citations.

Does the feedback suggest you need to add a concluding sentence to link back to your main idea? If so, think about how to link each paragraph back to your main points.

Some comments include an explainer video or infographic to help you understand more about the topic - these can be really helpful, especially if this is new feedback you haven’t heard before.

Need help? If you come across a term that you are unsure of, take a look at our Academic Writing Feedback Glossary here. It covers everything from ‘alliteration’ to ‘subject verb agreement’.

If your institution provides access to our Connect Live service, you can also connect to an English Specialist to go through your feedback and discuss it in more detail, at anytime.

Step 5: Finish rewriting and editing your original document, and give it one more read. If you would like more feedback, feel free to upload it again. If not, submit it to your University, TAFE, Polytech or College’s student portal (and give yourself a pat on the back for getting feedback before you submit. Your future self will thank you.)

Receiving fast, ethical feedback is one thing - but what to do with it may not be immediately obvious. Your university supports you with this resource because they want you to succeed, so make the most of your free access tonight.