"The educational problem, then, is this: Entering college students hold an arhectorial or asituational theory of written discourse, a repesentation or model of discourse..." (P.360 Haas)
"He knew that a university faculty would be reading and evaluating his essay, so he wrote for them." (P.512 Bartholomae)
I think both case studies were trying to get at the same point. Both Haas and Bartholomae were trying to state the problem of students coming in from high school into college. Haas is stating that high school students entering college have this mindset, on which Bartholomae shows, is that students are trying to appeal to the teacher for a better greade, but which doesn't really make them better writers. Well, it might, but according to both Haas and Bartholomae, writing to get a better grade doesn't make you a better writer. Being able to write what you want to write makes you a better writer according to Haas and Bartholomae.
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