in 8010 Theory and Practice via Network(ed) Rhetorics

kubernetes says something really provocative here:

Instead, I suggest, and I’m really trying on this one because I’m a champion problematizer, that we start looking at the opportunities teaching a formal academic essay presents our students. This form represents a goldmine of critical thinking precisely because it is so contrived and contained. Once we get the form down, we can start asking how deviations from the form affect writing and how effective they are at expressing ideas in the written word. Imagine reading a paper on Heidegger as a piece of lyrical poetry.
I suppose the point I’m going for here is a baseline model. If we don’t define a standard, how can we possibly subvert it?

I hope Ty doesn’t mind, but I’m going to share this idea with my peers in Theory and Practice.