Literacies
required for academic communities have been cast in terms of "inventing the
university" (Bartholomae),
acquiring the right kind of "small talk" for the "parlor" (Burke),
figuring out what academic conversations are really about (Rose),
and "joining the literacy club" (Smith). These descriptions characterize certain privileged discourse
conventions as distinguishing insiders in the academy from outsiders and
characterize adopting conventions of the privileged discourse as the acquisition
of a set of reading and writing behaviors.