Friday, January 16, 2009
Journal Entry 3
"Invent the University", Bartholomae means that as we write we take in our surrounds of where we live, how we act, languages, and rules. As we take in all of that we use that to write our paper. Like a person from the United States will write different from someone from mexico or from another state because everything around us shapes how we write. One way to be an "insider" is to learn that language that you are reading or writing and get a feel for the surroundings to help you be able to understand what you are comprehending.
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I think your comparison of Bartholomae's argument to one in which people automatically write differently because they're from different parts of the worlds overlooks some important things:
ReplyDelete1. Bartholomae is not interested in how different discourses come about, but how people move from one to another. (Specifically, how one moves into academic discourse.)
2. Bartholomae argues that learning an academic discourse is not something that happens naturally, but something one must actively engage in.