Standardized v. Innovative

The following is extremely reductive. I present it as my intial attempt to unpack the binary that Mary discussed in class.

Standardized (what I consider based on current-traditional rhetoric):
• Academic discourse/ audience.
• Linear progression.
• Process oriented.
• Asks students to adopt an objective stance.
• Positions the writer as an autonomous agent. Writing, therefore, belongs to the student.
• Values empirical evidence. Quantifies arguments.
• Values a paper over the project.


Innovative (what I would say is based on postmodern/digital/electric rhetorics):
• Multi-directional discourses/ more rhetorical emphasis on audience. Hypertextual progressions.
• Post-process orientation.
• Values student awareness of their subjective positions.
• Positions the writer as a node in a network. I think this raises the question of who writing belongs to.
• Values alternative forms of evidence.
• Values the project as project.
• Qualifies arguments.