When Bartholomae says that students must “invent the university” when they write in colleges is he feels students need to learn to speak our language, to speak as we do, to try on the peculiar ways of knowing, selecting, evaluating, reporting, concluding, and arguing that define the discourse of our community. Or perhaps the various discourses of our community, since it is in the nature of a liberal arts education that a student, after the first year or two, must learn to try on a variety of voices and interpretive schemes.
Bartholomae suggests for insiders to extend themselves into the commonplaces, set phrases, rituals, gestures, habits of mind, tricks of persuasion, obligatory conclusions, and necessary connections that determine the “what might be said” and constitute knowledge within the various branches of our academic community. He feels colleges and universities, have failed to involve basic writing students in scholarly projects, projects that would allow them to act as though they were colleagues in an academic enterprise.
The first essay not an elegant paper, but it seems seamless, tidy; and the discourse seems natural, smooth. The second essay was much more successful because she use “Creativity” as “original creation.” Bartholomae feels that it is better to write sentences one might not so easily control, and be convinced that it is better to write in a muddier and more confusing prose in order that it may sound like ours.
Bartholomae suggests for insiders to extend themselves into the commonplaces, set phrases, rituals, gestures, habits of mind, tricks of persuasion, obligatory conclusions, and necessary connections that determine the “what might be said” and constitute knowledge within the various branches of our academic community. He feels colleges and universities, have failed to involve basic writing students in scholarly projects, projects that would allow them to act as though they were colleagues in an academic enterprise.
The first essay not an elegant paper, but it seems seamless, tidy; and the discourse seems natural, smooth. The second essay was much more successful because she use “Creativity” as “original creation.” Bartholomae feels that it is better to write sentences one might not so easily control, and be convinced that it is better to write in a muddier and more confusing prose in order that it may sound like ours.
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You have a good sense of how to find the perfect quotes to answer the questions and identify the author's main points. These are all the exact quotes I underlined when I read and discussed in class.
ReplyDeleteWhen you start getting into your own research project, it will be important to keep track of exactly whose words are whose, so it will be important to keep words in quotation amrks that are not yours. It's just a good habit to get into now before it becomes an issue of having to go back later to a text to figure out where a quote begins or ends.