Bartholomae Argument Analysis

At first read of this article, I realize how important this essay is for understanding the complexities of how many students must negotiate when writing for the first time. Not only in an academic community in general – but also in the different departments of the academic community such as; English, Philosophy, Biology, Psychology, etc.. After my second read of this article, I realize that Bartholomae’s audience is for teachers, in that, Bartholomae raises awareness for a need among composition and writing scholars to be very specific in the demands they make on students. However, even though many students are very much aware of the demands of the academic community, many are still lacking the power to live up to the expectation and engage,
Therefore, leaving many students with a lack of knowledge of doing things that do not equip them, and leaving many students below par and exposed to the norms available. While, preventing them from becoming effective and succeeding in their academic discourse communities. To support Bartholomae argument, he uses examples of former student essays and how many students struggle with basic writing skills verses how the expert writer writes.
“Inventing the University” is implied by Bartholomae, that many, if not all college students are faced with adapting to new ideas, languages, and ways of doing things. Even more-true, many students of color are faced with the items mention above and then some. Many students of color toggle between the American experience and the Black experience, the African experience, the Mexican experience, the Indian experience, the Asian experience, etc. – just as
Often, many students write unaware of the readers understanding or even unaware that there is an audience. For the record, there’s always an audience. So to, many teachers teach unaware of the writers understanding or even unaware that there are different experiences for all student writers. For the record, all students are not all the same. While, in fact the expert writer, writes for the reader. The expert writer, understands the reader’s position and the knowledge of the reader, most of the time. Much like the late Muhammad Ali, always anticipating the opponent’s next move and always ready to respond, so to, the expert writer always anticipating the assumptions and biases of the audience. Teachers need to also understand all student positions and the knowledge of the student by anticipating the assumptions and biases of the