Bartholomae

Bartholomeau states "To begin to write is to know what cannot be known." In this sense, a student that is attempting to become a teacher has to learn what teachers known, and uncover a language or method that is not their own, rather the language which is accepted by society: "The struggle of the student writer is not the struggle to bring out that which is within; it is the struggle to carry out those ritual activities that grant one entrance into a closed society." To inform prospect teachers about the making of assignments, Bartholomae argues that an intellectual project requires indoctrination, assistance, interference and trust, which he breaks down into four principles throughout four stories or examples. On the first principle of assignment making, assignments lead students through successive approximations, resulting in a cycle of expectations and disappointments. Second principle for assignment making provides the occasion for translation, instead of subject only. On the third principle individual assignments should be part of a larger, group project and the last principle assists students toward a subject by interfering with their immediate procedure for dominating a subject by reducing it to a closed set. With those principles, Bartholomae offered a defense on redundant assignments, assignments that define both project and a way for working on a project, and assignments that are designed inform students that there are no schematic methods to make everything simple.

I think it is odd that there are no schematic methods to make things simple. I find that writing can be simple or complex depending of the writer or assignment's goal. I agree that redundancy like repetition, is a good method for learning and developing skills, specially with assignments. For my future as a teacher, most of the assignments that I plan to use will be towards the individual, but with the goal to unify or create discussions with the whole class.