Writing #4

What does Bartholomae mean when he says that students must “invent the university” when they write in college? I think that the batholomae meant that when you right you have to write what you feel even if its not the norm.


What does Bartholomae suggest is a way for students to become “insiders” within academic discourse? He suggests to become insiders in academic discourse you must develop you own taste, and feelings for things, an original piece.


Summarize some of the differences between the two examples of student writing that Bartholomae examines, and Bartholomae’s opinion of these examples. In one of the examples Bartholomae says that the paper was not an elegant paper, but it seems seamless, tidy; here the discourse seems natural, smooth. You could reproduce this paper and hand it out to a class, and it would take a lot of prompting before the student’s sense something fishy. And the second one said. This writer is consistently and dramatically conscious of herself forming something to say out of what has been said and out of what she has been saying in the act of writing this paper. I feel that Bartholomae’s likes or appreciates one essay more than the other, because one meets his writing standards.