UROP Project

Gamifying the Creative Writing Classroom: Play-Based Approaches to Writing Prompts

Creative Writing Pedagogy
Research Mentor: Ms. Li Zhuang,
Department, College, Affiliation: English Department, Arts and Sciences
Contact Email: lz20v@fsu.edu
Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from mentor): Ms.
Research Assistant Supervisor Email: lz20v@fsu.edu
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Looking for Research Assistants: Yes
Number of Research Assistants: 1
Relevant Majors: English Majors or Creative Writing Major
Project Location: On FSU Main Campus
Research Assistant Transportation Required: No, the project is remote
Remote or In-person: Fully Remote
Approximate Weekly Hours: 10, During business hours
Roundtable Times and Zoom Link:
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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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