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I think it works for fanfic. Certainly does for music. Some ideas, you don't realise how bad they can be without seeing.
Humans make a lot of their choices via the availability heuristic. Being exposed to bad writing can make those trains of thought more available in your mind. I would be wary of it.
When I switched schools I got into an English class with a lot of people who were bad at it. I noticed that I copied some of their mistakes.
This produces interesting results in music: musically talented people who take a mediocre form and turn out something really good from it. c.f. the fans of terrible hardcore punk in the '80s who turned into the grunge scene, Nirvana and cohorts.
It's the same with teaching: You never know in how many ways an argument can be wrong until you grade 25 assignments in a row.