Lu and What makes a Real Writer

"In my "literature" courses for junior- or senior-level college students or "writing" courses for first-year students, students learn to talk with considerable eloquence about the politics of stylistic decisions made by "real" writers, especially those writing from the borderlands by choice or necessity"(445)

It just seems like the politics of choosing a text is a "necessary evil." We would like our students to learn from the master(?) But at the same time, we want them to write in their own style and not sound like a text book. So we work around the problem by letting them select their own topics, believing that they will use their own voice in a written form. We want to have our cake and eat it too(I think some one on this blog has made an allusion to this teaching philosophy): we want them to write "academically" but when the form is too experimental, their content will suffer(?).

Writers, "real writers," use the English language in their own way, adding spice to their finished product. But that, for the most part, is what we see: a "real writer" presents a polished version of his experimental writing. This leaves the door wide open for deconstruction because a text is never finished, literature is never finished, its always being adapted, relived, reread, re-appropriated by professional and amateur writers alike. So what the hell is a "real writer?" In Lu's article, she gives two anecdotes  of professional writers who were criticized about their supposed misuse of the English language: these critics were editors of some kind. One writer chose to take the advice of the editor and one didn't; which one of the writers is a real writer? is the writer's integrity somehow changed? And if these two writers were used in a composition class, we dam well better know that there were editors telling the writers to appeal to a mass audience and their words were being manipulated.
My opinion: a real writer can recognize another writer; their form matches the content and their content matches the form.