As a student at Clark University, writing will be an integral component of your education. Faculty across the disciplines stress writing as a means of reflection, inquiry and argument. During your time at Clark, you will be asked to write in a variety of informal and formal genres—class notes, journals, responses, essays, research papers, quizzes, exams—so you will end up writing in almost every class you take, even if it doesn’t seem as if it will be writing-intensive.