compact form.

Summing up, Hajnal says the teaching of writing

     was a method of teaching that had multiple objectives: 
     the scribal training, practice in composition, and at the 
     same time the introduction of minds to awareness of new 
     concepts and reasonings and their means of expression. 
     It was a vital and steady movement, adding the pleasure 
     of the practice and use of writing to the acquisition of the 
     texts themselves. This was perhaps the original cause 
     that university teaching in the Middle Ages was more and 
     more characterized by the practice of writing. It is not 
     strange that from the fourteenth century the practice of 
     writing was considered as constituting the essence of 
     university life at Paris.