Which of these strategies can help you receive feedback on a draft you wrote? Think of your draft as a part of you that you must protect and defend.
Remind yourself that your peers are responding to the draft, not to you.
o Only listen to the comments that point to the strengths in your draft.
Explain each of the choices you made when writing the draft.

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.