John Ingulsrud, Kate Allen - Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse

Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy is a culmination of a project
that has taken nearly eleven years to complete. It began in response to the
findings from a survey to our college students on their reading habits and
their reading histories. Manga was repeatedly raised as something they were currently
reading and had read since childhood. As teachers of reading and writing, we
posed the following question: How does our students’ manga literacy relate to other
literacies? We also asked: What kind of skills do they possess that we are ignoring?
Would a better understanding of these skills help students transfer this knowledge
to other areas? Prompted by these questions, we began our project.