I’ve always felt as if this how learning and writing is ‘supposed’ to be. Therefore, rather than making a big production out of writing I just do research and follow the given guidelines and simply just write. I am not just ‘the student’ but I am the one who has “invented the university” so many times that I am familiar with both my strengths and weaknesses as a writer (Bartholomae, 403).
Why does it matter ‘what it means to be a student?’ This is the focus of David Bartholomae’s essay “Inventing the University.” Through his analysis he essentially describes what exactly it means to be a student of higher education. In the act of being a student, one places themselves in a position that requires them to demonstrate the ability to acclimate themselves with specialized and “peculiar ways of knowing, selecting, evaluating, reporting, concluding and arguing that define the discourse” of academia