Putting on the Sunglasses: The Argumentative Thesis as the Keystone to "Good' College Writing by Mike Quilligan

While easy to read, this essay easily breaks my top three list of articles i'm looking forward to burn.

The author's conclusion is that college writing is explicative writing, i.e. that it's a matter of sufficiently explaining thier topic.  He takes to task the curriculum at Indiana University by stating that students often pick up the attitudes and beliefs of the texts they're assigned to read rather than to imbed thier own ideas into thier papers.  He attempts to use a 1988 movie as an analogy, but i'm not sure how it's supposed to work; his idea seems to be that we need to ask students "So what?" so that they are forced to explain - to which i imagine that he's never postulated the possibility that students might not care to explain thier ideas.