UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1328

Research Mentor Information
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Primary Research Mentor Name: Li Zhuang
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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated): lz20v@fsu.edu
Position Title: Graduate Student
Faculty Advisor Name: Ravi Howard
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FSU College (if applicable): Arts and Sciences
FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation: English Department
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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated): lz20v@fsu.edu
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Overall Project Details
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Title of the Project: Gamifying the Creative Writing Classroom: Play-Based Approaches to Writing Prompts
Project Keywords: Creative Writing Pedagogy 
Are you currently looking for research assistants?: Yes
Number of Research Assistants Needed : 1
Relevant Research Assistant Major(s):
English Majors or Creative Writing Major

Project Location:: On FSU Main Campus
If the project location is off campus, does the research assistant(s) need to provide their own transportation?: No, the project is remote
Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s):: Fully Remote
Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work?: 10
Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work?: During business hours
Overall Research Project Description:
We are going to build a chapter of a textbook on inventive writing prompts that can gamefy creative writing classeslot. We will do more research and find proof that  game-infused tasks can increase classroom engagement and increase students' creativity, thus resulting in a more satisfactory teaching outcome. This practical resources could potentially serves writing instructors at all levels, from middle school to universities like FSU, offering concrete tools and actionable writing prompts that work well with students

Research Tasks:
Literature Review + Proofreading.

Skills that research assistant(s) may need::
Research Skills, Proofreading

Mentoring Philosophy:
As a first-year college composition instructor and woman of color from China with extensive international academic experience across Scotland, Australia, and the United States, I bring a fundamentally multicultural lens to mentoring undergraduate researchers in creative writing pedagogy. My mentoring philosophy centers on the belief that diverse perspectives are not merely beneficial but essential to research and scholarship, particularly in a field as culturally situated as creative writing pedagogy. Understanding the challenges of navigating academic discourse across cultures and languages, I provide patient support for students developing their academic research skills. I celebrate multilingual perspectives and encourage students to draw on their full range of linguistic and cultural resources. Under my mentorship, students might examine how creative writing is taught across different cultural contexts, comparing methods used in American creative writing programs with approaches in other countries. For example, investigating how collaborative writing practices differ between East Asian and Western pedagogical traditions. We can compare MFA programs in Hong Kong, UK to the established US program and find their differences and similarities. I will always offer student hands-on experience that they can hone their research skills from day one. They can start by browsing through different databases, find relevant papers and important datas and write a comprehensive literature review. They can also come up with creative writing prompts that incorporate games and we can try that in the actual classroom setting and collect results. Students are welcome to ask questions and explore academic publication with me.en to qu

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Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable?: No
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UROP Program Elements
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Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication: Yes
UROP Performance Evaluation: Yes
Materials Grant: Yes
UROP Poster Presentation: Yes
Faculty Advisor Confirmation: Yes

Are you interested in attending in a UROP Research Mentor Workshop Series?: No
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Year: 2025
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