Journal 3

1. When Bartholomae says that students must "invent the university" he suggests that students must undertake a specific writing process in order to make a new piece of writing. He says that students must learn how to speak in a way that applies to the audience that he/she is speaking to. The student must know what to speak about and must know of the audience of which they are trying to target. The writer must be prepared for the readers response .
2. Bartholomae suggests that students should become "insiders" by truly beleiving, comprehending, and having an interrest for what they are writing about. If they lack any of these characteristics, how can they possibly create a masterpiece that they themselves understand or know the meaning of? It is very important for a writer to have a passion for what he/she is writing about in order for their true feelings to come out. After all, we all have the right to speak what is on our mind.
3. The first paper is more bland as it gets straight to the point with very little detail. This paper does not give the reader any feeling nor vivid details for the reader to imagine. The second paper goes more in depth and is a better written paper. This paper has more analysis on the topic they are writing about and uses more detail. Bartholomae's opinion was that the first paper was not an "elegant paper." He finds this paper to be too simple and that the discourse was "natural." Bartholomae likes the fact that the second paper starts off about creativity but then the author realizes that all a long he was not being creative because he/she was copying songs. The author then analyzes if he/she really was being creative.