User talk:Morgan Kennon

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Hello, Morgan Kennon, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Instructor Feedback for Draft
Overall, I think you provided a nice start to an article about hurtful communication. The writing is generally clear and easy to read. The big question is how to integrate your content into the existing article of Hurtful_communication. I'm curious if you were planning to replace the existing content or integrate it in some way. A lot of your content and presentation of the content is new, but some of the information is about the same. The Wikipedia community generally prefers more incremental changes, unless it is a new article. The background section provides some good information about conceptualizing hurtful communication, but I think this would fit better as a content section. Then in the background section you can describe the origins of thinking about and researching hurtful communication. The first content section is done well and the example is helpful. I'm wondering how you feel about scholars that place the interpretation about whether a message was hurtful on the receiver. So if the receiver felt hurt or devalued then the interaction or message would be considered hurtful. It might be helpful to describe this prioritization of the receiver when deciding what constitutes hurtful communication. The second content section needs more elaboration. There are other studies that you can bring in here as well. I think you point out an important challenge for research about hurtful communication in the critique section. However, I would argue that people are never able to give an unbiased opinion and that qualitative research cannot be skewed. If the meaning making process occurs in how we describe what someone said or did to us that made us feel hurt, then that is what has "stuck" and how we make sense of these hurtful experiences may change over time as we talk about them differently. Interpretive researchers are okay with this because they are not concerned with discovering an objective truth about what occurred during the hurtful conversation, but how people describe what it means to them. I suggest consider revising the critique section accordingly. The last sentence from the Young (2015) study is appropriate though. Jrpederson (talk) 03:28, 14 October 2020 (UTC)