The article is devoted to the use of the technology “Writing and Thinking” in studying disciplines of the general education cycle in non-linguistic universities. In the last decade, modern education has been undergoing transformation and rethinking both in the field of the educational process and its role in the development of modern society as a whole. Education based on the model of liberal arts and sciences meets modern requirements for university graduates who must have a full range of socio-cultural, communicative and value-semantic competencies. This teaching model also changes the role of the teacher, who was traditionally perceived as a one-sided translator of educational information. Central to this approach to education is working with text. Most often, such a text is not paragraphs from textbooks and teaching aids, but original texts (articles by authors on the topic under study, documentary primary sources, etc.).