How Professors Think : Inside the curious world of academic judgment
Michele Lamont
There are competing narratives about what passes for being good. There are different standards of excellence, different kinds of excellence, and I’m certainly willing to entertain somebody else’s standard
of excellence up to a point. I’m not sure that I could articulate what that point is, but I’m pretty confident that I’d know it when I see it. You develop a little bit of a nose for it. Particularly for what’s bad.