Revision & Response for a Review (amann-revision)

When to trigger

• A proposal decision letter arrived (invited / revise-and-resubmit / declined)
• A full-review referee letter arrived (major revision is the norm for a long review)
• Referees flagged "no real framework," missing streams, imbalance, or "reads like a list"
• You need a point-by-point response letter for a review article, not a primary paper

First: which letter is this?

Annals' two-step process produces two kinds of feedback, and they call for different moves:

• Proposal-stage feedback (double-blind, from the Associate Editors). The decision is mainly about fit and promise: is the literature Annals-scale, and is there a genuinely new framework under "New insights"? A revise-and-resubmit here usually means sharpen the contribution before the full review is invited — route back through amann-topic-selection / amann-organizing-framework / amann-proposal-framing.
• Full-review feedback (editor-only: Associate Editor and Editor). The review is being developed; feedback is about execution — framework strength, coverage, balance, attitude, accessibility. This is the classic point-by-point revision below.

Categories of full-review feedback (and how to answer each)

Triage every point into one bucket: