Nancy Lynne Westfield is Director of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion. 

It is not enough to have a vague idea of what you're about as a scholar. You must take steps to articulate your intellectual project. It is not your career, not your teaching duties, nor your classes. Your intellectual project is the things to which all those other considerations are bent. 

In this audio blog, Nancy Lynne Westfield offers questions to de-mystify one's project.