Students tend to flourish in writing workshop courses.
The ww students learn to nurture their own intelligence, and thus to take their own intellectual potential seriously. They appreciate the ability to think for themselves, and not for the teacher. But what a delight it has been for me to recognize, in papers developed and written from journal entries, how excited students are about their work. The course teaches students how to think within the discipline, and gives them tools that should stay with them long after the factual material they learn is forgotten. This has been some of the most exciting teaching I have done to date.