This experiment addresses the following problematic:

The Arts and Letters disciplines are largely excluded from the practices of consulting in public policy formation and community problem solving. This exclusion is based on a utilitarian ideology, manifested in such binaries as applied/pure research, that needs to be challenged.

Major premise: the internet and world wide web, in the context of an increasingly predominant electronic culture, create new communications possibilities capable of supporting new relationships across the institutions of society.

For these possibilities to be realized a new general writing practice is needed. The Testimonial is intended to be such a practice.