David Bartholomae

The article by David Bartholomae, "Inventing the University," seems to me to be very much about the way students must create an audience to go along with the discourse of his paper. Bartholomae talks about how the student must "invent the university for the occasion" or, "speak our language... define the discourse of our community." He argues the fact that it is very hard for students to take on the role of teacher in their writing but eventually address their audience differently throughout their paper and seem to take on the role of the one with authority. Bartholomae talks about how it is important for a writer to revise their work in such a way as to acknowledge their readers and suit the writing more towards their expectations. Students who are taught to revise by keeping their readers in mind will be more successful within their community discourse.
That is what I got out of the article so far, after about five to ten pages in it all seems to start to run together. I'm hoping that class discussion will make it more clear.