Exploring Supervisory Feedback Formulation on Academic Writing of Research Proposals and Postgraduates’ Responses to Feedback: A Case Study

Despite the emphasis on effective supervisory feedback formulation postgraduates’ academic writing, our understanding of forms may not be comprehensive without mentoring students’ responses to feedback. Therefore, current case study explores research proposal writing and two in a Malaysian university. Data were collected from written feedback, commenting their text revisions, follow-up interviews. The is formulated as directive, referential, expressive, it addresses issues related content, organization, linguistic accuracy, appropriateness writing. postgraduates engaged cognitive (e.g., confusion), metacognitive reading feedback), affective appreciating feedback) They integrated most revising made additional revisions. Although this primarily qualitative nature, simple descriptive quantitative measures applied data determine prevalence forms, responding revision patterns. provides useful suggestions for practices.