At Quinnipiac, you will question and revise prior knowledge to create fresh insight, just like the faculty researchers with whom you’ll work side by side, building on the work of others. By participating in the rigorous academic process of critical reading, writing, revision and discussion, you will learn how to do the kind of work that counts as “knowledge” in the University and the world of professionals.

It will be vastly different from from the kinds of writing assignments you likely produced in high school.

For example, let’s say your high school teacher asked you to write an essay about Abraham Lincoln. You probably would have used history books, articles by experts and the Internet to support a personal opinion such as “Abraham Lincoln was the nation’s greatest president.”
 
For a high school paper, that was probably fine. But at a university, you’re expected to do more. By participating in academic discourse, you’ll take responsibility for your own learning. You’ll explore what remains unknown or still unquestioned about a topic, then write about it not only as a student, but as a peer of your professor and of the experts you consulted.