From the article: "Yet despite our professional reliance on the stuff of poetics, compositionists haven't been talking, or not very much, about the work students do in classrooms that focus on writing fiction, poetry, drama, or memoir. And despite our increasingly keen awareness of the uses (and abuses) of stories, we've tended to support the view that classes marked as creative writing exist apart from "functionalist" composition classrooms or even that such classes don't really involve work but pleasure and reward, an extra-curricular treat for a special, talented few."