In many ways writing still stands at the core of the intellectual experience in my courses. In writing they experience learning as a more solitary and reflective activity, with many sometimes difficult stops and starts as they read and reread, think through questions, sort through evidence, and slowly transform ideas from the head to the page. There is joy here too, in the little flashes of insight that accompany the process and especially at the end when they realize they have created something that did not exist before.
Matt Panciera
Professor of Classics
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Excerpted from Teaching, Scholarship, and Service: An Anthology of Faculty Statements