Summary of Inventing the University

The Essay Dr. David Bartholomae writes about Inventing the University it makes a lot of key points and ideas when you sit and think what he is trying to convey to his readers. Bartholomae’s purpose is clear, he explains what must happen in order for the student who is attending that University, when writing an essay how it should be well put together but also is in a language of clear understanding for Professors who teach English to be able to understand the language of what the essay is talking about. Bartholomae gives a couple of examples of essay’s that were written and he examines and give points on how each any every essay had a problem and or didn’t fit the discourse community meaning didn’t have the language at which the Audience (Professors) would not understand. When writing for the University you want to write professional and have language that the University will understand. It’s the not the simple fact that students can write an essay and present it because anyone can write an essay, but the difference is can you write an essay to an academic discourse and be able to mimic the academic discourse meaning, to have the knowledge to speak in the language as them, to speak as the voice of the community. Bartholomae makes it very clear what students must do but also what Professors have to do in order for the students to replicate what they have been taught and produce it to the University.