This workshop provides the knowledge and some strategies to master these critical phases with confidence and professionalism. Together we will develop a tool that you can use again and again for peer review management, but also for collegial text feedback.

Contents:

Structuring the revision process:

• You will learn how to organise the revision process in order to adequately consider feedback from all expert reports.
• You will develop an efficient workflow and schedule for revisions.

Effective revision of articles:

• You will understand the decision criteria for editing specific points that are often raised by expert reports.
• You will learn how to deal with conflicting feedback and recognise the limits of revision.

Writing an effective author's response Letter (ARL):

• You will be able to recognise the common challenges of writing an ARL.
• You will learn strategies for justifying and documenting changes to the manuscript in an organised way.
• You will learn the essential components and format of an ARL.

Note:
Please bring an article and the corresponding reviewer reports to the workshop. Ideally, we will work on your specific subject/case.

Target group and course language:
Doctoral students & scientific authors who have already brought at least one article through the review process or have accompanied this process.

Trainer: Dr Beate Richter

Registration: Short e-mail to sylvia.schmid@fh-potsdam.de. Registration deadline: 21^st of May 2026.