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Understanding Assessment Feedback

This resource is a quick, action-focused guide to making the most out of receiving and using feedback. It will help you identify and understand your feedback, so that you can learn from your assessment feedback and feed this forward into other assessments

Understanding the language used in your feedback

The language used in feedback can be intimidating, overwhelming, and sometimes just confusing.

What does your tutor mean when they say ‘be more critical’ or when they ask you to 'be more analytical’?

How can you ‘make things flow’, and why have they asked you to ‘improve your structure’? 

 

Feedback terms and phrases

Go through the flip the cards below to explore what commonly used feedback phrases mean in practice. You can find further guidance related to these key terms elsewhere in the study skills libguides - click on the hyperlinks to find out more.

 

We have lots of other resources that may help you to improve specific areas of your assessment, click on the link in the table below:

Area for improvement highlighted in your feedback Online resource for support

Improving your argument

Improving the structure of your writing

Increasing the depth of analysis in your writing, and use of evidence and theory

Academic writing
Improving the criticality in your writing

Critical reading

Critical writing

Improving your referencing and citation

UoE Referencing guide

Improving the clarity of your writing Editing & proofreading

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