Journal Entry 3

What does Bartholomae mean when he says that students must “invent the university” when they write in college?

What Bartholomae means is that students should approach the university and a course by challenging it and by looking to it as an “insider.” Not standing back and just learning what the University teaches. The student should do additional research and testing in the subject matter so that when he leaves the University he will have gained full knowledge, which would be evident the mark he leaves on the university.


What does Bartholomae suggest is a way for students to become “insiders” within academic discourse?

Students can become “insiders” by allowing them to have scholarly projects that will allow them to act like professional of the field, instead of having the students just sit and admire what others have done


Summarize some of the differences between the two examples of student writing that Bartholomae examines, and Bartholomae’s opinion of these examples.

In the first writing the author simply states what he did and why he thought it was unique. The second writer however goes much deeper into why he thought he was creative and why he didn’t think he was being creative. He compares and contrast the two and at the end gives a well written generalization of what creativity is, something that among other things the first writer failed to do.

Bartholomae opinion of the first writer is that his piece was not elegant, seamless and to tidy. In the second writer, Bartholomae compliments the writing saying thae writer was consistently and dramatically concisions of herself. Stating that the style was difficult and highly qualified.