VAWN’S WORLD

Elbow-Bartholomae Reading Response

The difference between the writer and academics for elbow is that the writer has a voice needing to be heard. If the writer is tied up by Academics structure, it only drags the writer down. This difference is so important because it allows writers to be less scared about what they are writing and to just say what they are wanting to. The audiences are different as well the writer will change how s/he writes based on their audience. Elbow believes that individuals were born with knowledge and that Bart. believes that they have to produce knowledge.

Elbows writing is different than the academic writing. He wants the writer to write for themselves, which means they are their own audience. He also tries to show the writer that they should show their cultural identity through their writing. Elbow feels that teachers should use freewriting as a tool to help students find their voice. He thinks that the structured classroom is not good for students and that treating essays as only a structured piece of paper is a horrible way to teach. But there are always two sides, the academic side (or the Bart side) shows how and why students need structure. They are writing for an audience and they are writing facts statistics no voice is allowed. These two distinct ways of writing and forms of teaching writing each have their strong points in learning.