Writing on the Margins pp 312-326 | Cite as
The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum
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I found my career in basic writing. I got my start there and, to a degree, helped to construct and protect a way of speaking about the undergraduate curriculum that has made “basic writing” an important and necessary, even an inevitable, term. This is a story I love to tell.
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