Teaching Style
"It's very easy to teach because the students are so good, they all have questions, and they all have things to say," describes Santana about his teaching experiences. "The hardest thing in humanities is to teach how to be critical about what you read. We can all gather information and write a nice paper, but to present an original point of view is not just a collection of other people's ideas; you need to be able to point out others' weaknesses and strengths and integrate them into an argument of your own." Santana further references the critically acclaimed Craft of Research to support and guide his argument, as he places an emphasis on careful reading of texts. "Two novels can talk about the same things very differently--it's the way they talk that can make them interesting to us."
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