This is old news, but I want to invoke the point Bartholomae (I think) made that no
matter how much people speak of writing at school as unreal, the lab reports in
Biology, essay in English, and research essay in Psychology due next week are all
too real to the students.
Because instructors in many disciplines (ourselves included) continue to assign
writing (to facilitate learning of the course material, genunine needs to
communicate through written language, needs to assess/evaluate, etc.), I think
writing in the university is real, like other people have said, as real as writing
in the workplace.
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Tosh Tachino, M.A., B.A. Honors
Ph.D. Student, Iowa State University
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~tosh/
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