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This study went over comments on 110 first drafts of essays by 47 university ESL students, considering the pragmatic goals for and the linguistic features of each comment. Drafts of each essay were examined to observe the influence of the first draft commentary on the students´revisions and asses whether the changes that were made in response to the teacher´s feedback actually improved the essays. The author thinks that a significant proportion of the comments led to substantive student revision, and that were some commentaries that helped more than others. The final results are suggestive of important implications for L2 writing instruction and for future studies on a vital topic.