Table 1.

An Example of a Clear Editorial Steer (received for Cleland and MacLeod, 2022)

Editor’s Comment	Authors’ Response
“In thinking through how you might address these points, I would encourage you to think about what you want this paper to do and/or accomplish. If you want readers to use more digital ethnography in their own work, I suggest providing an example of how to do this (the recent reviewer suggested this as an option, as well). If you want readers to understand that they will need to incorporate digital ethnography because COVID has shifted the teaching landscape of medical education, then let this be the focus and orient the manuscript around this idea.”	“Thank you, this has helped us be more explicit about our focus which is for readers to use digital ethnography. Our arguments for this are not related to Covid-19 per se, and so we have removed references to the pandemic (so readers are not distracted into thinking this is yet another Covid-19 paper).”

Editor’s Comment

Authors’ Response

“In thinking through how you might address these points, I would encourage you to think about what you want this paper to do and/or accomplish. If you want readers to use more digital ethnography in their own work, I suggest providing an example of how to do this (the recent reviewer suggested this as an option, as well). If you want readers to understand that they will need to incorporate digital ethnography because COVID has shifted the teaching landscape of medical education, then let this be the focus and orient the manuscript around this idea.”

“Thank you, this has helped us be more explicit about our focus which is for readers to use digital ethnography. Our arguments for this are not related to Covid-19 per se, and so we have removed references to the pandemic (so readers are not distracted into thinking this is yet another Covid-19 paper).”