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I think basic writing programs have become expressions of our desire to produce basic writers, to maintain the course, the argument, and the slot in the university community: to maintain the distinction (basic/normal) we have learned to think through and by. The basic writing program, then, can be seen simultaneously as an attempt to bridge and preserve cultural difference, to enable students to enter the normal curriculum but to insure, at the