Journal 3

Journal 3


1. One could say that what bartholomae means when he states students must invent the university is to write as every department you may encounter in a university. You may have to write as a biology professor one day or as a psychologist the next. But, he is also saying to write as if you know exactly what you’re doing, when you really don’t understand.

2. The students become insiders by speaking there minds. They have the right to come up with an original idea and write about it on there own. A way students become insiders is by learning the fact that they have the right to speak, al though dangerous at time because others see this as a possible threat that writers have there own ideas. Students must learn this skill.

3. One big difference in the two essays written by different students but on the same topic is the tone of the essay. The tone for the first essay is very mellow and very generic. The student just seems to be talking how he changed his socks and than the team all changed tem too so he felt as though he made a huge change in his life, like he made a big impact. For the second one it is written very well and elegantly. You can tell that the student put a lot of thought in to the essay and really understood what they meant when they said to write about change in your life. The tone of the essay is very positive and makes you really want to read it and understand why he chose music writing as his change. The second difference is the topics they wrote about. In the first essay the student has picked a topic that doesn’t even seem meaningful to him and he sees creativity as from within. However, in the second essay the student has chosen a topic that is meaningful to him. He comes up with a very creative way of thinking what creativity is to him. He does not go with the usual creativity comes from you, only you can be creative. He states that creativity are steps before the big creativity step. He says that creativity can be interpreted differently by everyone and that’s ok.