Journal # 4

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

What Barthaolomae means by students must "invent the university" is that they have to become the expert in whatever it is that they are writing about. They have to know everything possible as applicable to that subject.

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

He suggests that students should go ahead and write what they feel. Do not be afraid of what students have to say. They were given the right to speak and they should take advantage of that right. It is ok to not understand everything but try and when students are not sure ask questions.

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

The difference between these two examples that Bartholomae examines is that the first one is
just simple and straightforward, the other one tries to tell a story and explain more in detail than
the first one did.

Bartholomae's opinion of the first example was that it is natural and gives what the prompt asks
however it isn't sophisticated. The second example on the other hand lends its voice to the
paper; it develops a language and gives more of an opinion than the other example.