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Rhetorical Analysis Of Inventing The University By Barholomae

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Bartholomae writes in his article Inventing The University, “ A writer has to build bridges between his point of view and his readers. He has to anticipate and acknowledge his readers’ assumption and biases.’’ (515) To know your audience is meant to be able to anticipate and assume your reader’s point of view, but at no time, I would say that I knew my audience that specifically in order for me to anticipate their personal assumption and biases. Instead, I was making sure all the required guidelines were met in a way to fulfill the genre expectation as well as my

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