One issue is that networked and connected people may have greater access to pre-publish criticism in the form of google doc comments, and getting google doc comments seems like a fairly robust strategy for improving the quality of an essay. If simply the best essays are awarded, then we may ossify some dynamics around being networked and well connected, or failing to recognize people from outside of our ingroup.
One issue is that networked and connected people may have greater access to pre-publish criticism in the form of google doc comments, and getting google doc comments seems like a fairly robust strategy for improving the quality of an essay. If simply the best essays are awarded, then we may ossify some dynamics around being networked and well connected, or failing to recognize people from outside of our ingroup.