After analyzing both Bartholomae’s and Elbow’s work I noticed that Elbow seems to use ethos in a way that Bartholomae’s text lacks. According to the text, “What …show more content…
Bartholomae argues that “writing is the real work of the academy,” which means exactly what it states. His method of teaching focuses on work of scholars that are well know from their process of writing. He believes that there is no real writing without teachers, because the student isn’t the first to acquire academic grade information on how to write. The credit then falls to the teacher instead of the actual writer because it is seen as the work of the teacher. Since you did not teach yourself what you have written, then the work did not originate from the writer, instead from the mindset the scholar taught the writer. This can then lead the focus away from the new writers, one who can teach us something we didn’t know before, but this method of teaching prevents just