Inventing The University By David Barholomae Summary

In the article “Inventing the University” by David Bartholomae, he writes about basic problems that writers have and that when they are in the process of writing they need to use the written or spoken communication associated with the community they are addressing in their writing. For the writer to properly engage in this they must fully understand the discourse of their intended audience and respected community. He continues on to say that there are two distinct approaches that a writer can take on while writing. The first approach is when the writer is just writing for her or himself getting their ideas, information, and examples down. Then you start to begin writing with the reader in mind. He mentions that Linda Flower had argued expert writers are better at writing in this reader based
You also have to had been given the particular right to speak or in this case write. He also firmly believes when students try to take on an authoritative role, students tend to just mimic their professor rather than discover their own conclusion. Opposed to extending themselves out into the community and genuinely put time into what the professor wants to see. Bartholomae says the solution to fix this problem would be to see more writing in all types of classes. This he claims is to be blamed on the curriculum and the teachers who administer all the writing habits and state that writing is a mode of learning that students do not use this as a tool to their advantage. He continues on with ways of fixing writers basic problems that they have, the first would be for the academic community to determine its own conventions and state what they are. Once these are established they can be brought to the classroom, then teachers can be more exact and obliging when they ask students to describe, define, argue, or think because there is some unknown content in many communities that confuses