Really enjoyed Georgina’s post after reading the Graham article about the essay. Yes, the essay is a way to come up with answers, not writing the already known. As humanities students it is our lab, our experimental space, where we test and invent. We don’t do this somewhere else then report on it (which is what most of us have been taught an essay is) but the essay is actually where we do the thinking. This is one reason I like blogs. And posts like Georgina’s. Simply because it is thinking in the moment of the writing and discovering something. That should be the point of writing in a university in the humanities. Experiment and thinking in the language of our practice (writing). The essay is a technology, treat it as that and the question becomes what do you want to do with it.