An insight to be drawn from the writing problems of Harvard University (Massachusetts) students enrolled in a "basic writing" course is that the kinds of problems the students had were different in degree, but not in kind, from problems of less accomplished student writers elsewhere and from those all student writers have from time to…

Argues that the kinds of problems Harvard "basic writers" have are different in degree, but not in kind, from problems of less accomplished student writers elsewhere, from problems all student writers have from time to time, and from the problems experienced adult writers confront in unfamiliar or difficult writing situations. (RS)