I am writing to recruit First-Year Writing faculty to participate in a brief research study.
This study seeks to inquire about if first-year composition faculty observe their students rhetorically analyzing Japanese media artifacts such as anime and Japanese video games in their First-Year Writing Courses. The objective of this research is to determine the prevalence of student interest in Japanese media and how often these media are analyzed by First-Year Composition Students. Methods used to analyze include a Qualtrics-based survey distributed to faculty members via e-mail distributed through Writing Program Administrators and field listservs. Survey questions will inquire about faculty members’ observation of student interest in analyzing Japanese media as evidenced in both formative and summative assessments of student writing. The survey should take no more than 20 minutes to complete. Participation in research is voluntary. Please ask any questions you have about participating in this study.
You must be 18 years of age or older and must be a First-Year Writing instructor of any rank at a public University in the United States at the time of taking the survey to take part in this research study.
The Principal Investigator, Vee Kennedy, is a graduate student in the Texts & Technology PhD Program and a faculty member in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida. Their work has been published in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy and The Journal of Replaying Japan. Vee’s faculty advisor is Dr. Anastasia Salter. Contact information is provided on the attached Explanation of Research and in the survey link below.
The link to the survey is here: https://ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d071kYybz6SknwG
The survey will remain open until December 20th, 2025.
Thank you for your support.
In Gratitude,
Vee Kennedy
Texts & Technology PhD Student
Instructor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric
University of Central Florida
CompFacultyPerspectiveJapaneseMedia_ExplanationofResearch (1).pdf