On The Role Personal Insecurity Plays in Academic Discourse
In David Bartholmae’s article “Inventing the University”, he states that in order for the student to succeed in the university as it was currently (1985) constituted, the student must, “invent the university by assembling and mimicking its language, while finding some compromise between idiosyncrasy, a personal history, on the one hand and the requirements of convention, the history of discipline, on the other.”[1] The “mimicry” of language and terms in the academy is one that...
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