Journal #3

1. What does Bartholomae mean when he says that students must “invent the university” when they write in collage?
Bartholomae means that the students have to learn to speak the reader’s language, to speak as they do, to try on their ways of knowing, selecting, evaluating, reporting, concluding, and arguing to define the discourse of the community. When trying to prove a point the students must gather all the information of a subject, objectively find the claim, justify said claim with proof and explain your conclusions in a relative manor-to said readers.

2. What does Bartholomae suggest is a way for students to become “insiders” within academic discourse?
To become “insiders” the students must first have invented or discovered an original idea. This must be done so the students know the necessary steps in explaining discourse

3. Summarize some of the differences between the two examples of student writing that Bartholomae examines, and Bartholomae’s opinion on these examples.
Bartholomae thought that the first essay was very premature. It only focused on the question at hand; 'think of something creative you've done'. The football player did not expand on why he thought that wearing white socks was creative, what was his motivation to choose to wear white socks? The reader is left unknowing, because the writer does not expand on his choice.
The second essay was well thoughtout and throughly explained. She stated what she thought was creavtive, then looked at it from a different angle and realized with the reader that what she that was her own creativity, was only a mimic of her motivation-music. But as she realized that she could create her own music, with motivation and her own creative touch she was able to trully see that what she created was her own. The essay is very detailed and in depth.