Inventing the university

I liked Bartholomae's paper on "Inventing the University". He brought up interesting examples of student essays and how they have to be specific or "specialized" in their writing to satisfy academic standards (p. 511). I liked this essay it makes u think out of the box. It shows their isn't one way to write a paper, if you wouldn't write that way you wouldn't get good grade. But as many other people in the blogs said that all our life we are told to write over papers this way. If we would use big words in our paper teacher will be impressed with out using our mind. Instead of focusing on what the paper should be about we tend to think what big word should i use in this paper that would give me a good grade. I know i have done that many time. But the blame can't be all on us. That's how we are thought in schools. But in this essay i see that the writer trying to tell u that they way u write isn't wrong. As long as u know what your topic is and u write what u believe in rather then writing just to get a good grade.