Inventing the University

1. Solutions to the problems:

1.1. "Determine what the community's conventions are" (Bartholomae 12)

1.1.1. Write them out ("demystified"--simpliflied)

1.1.1.1. Teach it

1.1.1.1.1. Teachers could help by being: more precise and helpful

1.2. "Examine essays of basic writers" ("approximated academic discourse") (Bartholomae 12)

1.2.1. Determine where problems are

1.2.1.1. Do a comparison to find the parts that are the most difficult for students

2. What students (should) have to do to be successful:

2.1. "Invent the university for the occasion"

2.1.1. Know- language, how to select, evaluate, report, conclude, argue, rhythm, rituals, and gestures (Bartholomae 4-6)

2.1.2. "Try on a variety of voices and interpretive schemes" (Bartholomae 4)

2.1.2.1. Like in a play (trigger certain reactions from the audience)

2.1.3. "Bluffing" (Bartholomae 5)

2.1.4. "Authority" (Bartholomae 6)

2.1.5. Student can both define a position of privilege, a position that sets us against a "common" discourse, and when we can work self-consciously, critically, against "common" code but our own. (Bartholomae 9)

3. Metaphor for Bartholomae's argument

3.1. A writer-based prose is like a robot. Without oil and joints the robot is jerky. With oil and joints the robot moves fluidly.

4. Writer-based Essay = Robot without oil and joints

5. Writer-based Essay = with oil and joints

6. Conclusion of Effectiveness

6.1. This article was not very effective because there is so much rhetoric you can very easily bypass all of his points unless you are specifically looking for them.

7. Link to Inventing the University article:

7.1. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4Vle9OGn6xJU3p5V0RNMk12Q1U/edit?usp=drive_web&pli=1

8. Problems students have with writing for a more educated audience:

8.1. Heightened sense of audience (Bartholomae 9)

8.2. "Slips" in character (Bartholomae 6)

8.3. They don't know things on the level he knows them (Bartholomae 9)

8.4. "I am arguing, then, that such sentences fall apart not because the writer lacks the necessary syntax to glue the pieces together but because he lacks the full statement within which these key words are already operating." (Bartholomae 19)

9. Short summary of his argument and goal:

9.1. He wanted to study what goes on when a writer enters a language and context and how it made or unmade them as a writer. Bartholomae's gives you his argument in a form of problems, examples, and then solutions. (Bartholomae 12)

10. Argument Organization: Rhetoric

10.1. He makes a point (most of the time his opinion) then backs it up with 2 facts (again his opinion) and backs it up with examples from an essay he studied.

11. Works Cited:

11.1. Bartholomae, David. Inventing the University. Journal of Basic Writing Spring 1986, 4. WAC Clearinghouse. Web. 8 September 2013.