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.