This song is in my head. Stop it song, stop it.
You know what, this article is pretty great. Why haven't I been forcing my students to mediate? Why don't we teach that? Why is it so take a darn position and argue it? That's kind of artificial in itself, as no person really feels obnoxiously for one point without any ability to see the other (Except those crazies, and there is often a reason for the crazy). I really want to see these assignment sheets. Very badly. Does anyone teach anything like this and would be willing to share?
I actually have a problem with thesis statements in some moral/ethical way. They, too, seem artificial. Actually, not seem, are entirely artificial. Who opens up a debate with "GIRL THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE IN, YO" except in a purely academic way, filled with jargon and words that Judith Butler says with such ease but makes me scrunch the side of my face. They don't. There's a rhetoric of introduction and moment and basic human greyness that is hard to acknowledge in a comp1000 class. Or hard to imitate. Honestly, if it was easy to imitate, I'm sure creative writers would be out of a job.
Anyway, this article raises a lot of questions that I must ponder while eating these left over mashed potatoes.
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