In an effort to introduce students to a relatively new genre and allow them to evaluate it in the context of how they had been taught in the past, the author created an assignment about graphic novels and literacy that guided students through four short papers, forming a longer research paper for a final project. The students would begin with a…

Describes the results of a questionnaire survey of the faculty of American University to determine their perceptions of student literacy and to discovery what kind of writing, and how much of it, is being assigned. (DD)