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This article describes a combination of a research essay and a creative writing assignment that encourages rigorous academic research while allowing students to get "outside the box" of traditional academic research papers. This assignment has five steps. The first two steps offer the chance to introduce academic research along with summary and paraphrasing. The third step, is for the students to begin developing their own stories. The fourth step in this process seeks to get students thinking of how their research will affect their story specifically. The fifth and final step is to write the stories themselves, with as many drafts and peer reviews as time allows

The article discusses the history of sail-driven whaling on the southern coastline of the U.S. It mentions about American whaling fleet that operated offshore from Albany and further east along the coast to the Recherche Peninsula. It also mentions about offering vegetables and fruit, firewood and water, in exchange for oil, farm tools, and boots and all manner of Yankee notions from glassware to cloth and thread.

The article presents a description of the combination of research essay and writing assignment strategies applied by the teacher to his composition class. The purpose of the strategies was to lessen the burden experience by the student of doing a research traditional paper, as well as to emphasize the importance of learning an academic research. The teacher called his scheme as creative research story composition, in which he asked his students to create a short story with the same style. Five steps are offered in making the assignment. These include summarizing, paraphrasing and paying attention to the titles of the stories. The story ends with the question of the teacher about the theme of the particular story they made.