I retired from teaching in August, 2018. In the fall semester of that academic year, I taught a section of Basic Writing (now called "Workshop in Composition"), one of the courses I taught in the fall of 1975, my first year at the University of Pittsburgh. This essay is a documentary account of that course, including writing assignments and student papers, but it is also a reflection on some of the people, courses, and concerns that have shaped and sustained a long career as a teacher of writing.