Dear Colleagues:
We are contacting you to invite you to participate in a study that seeks to investigate the
intellectual property experiences and knowledge of teacher-scholars and editors in writing
studies. You are invited to complete a brief questionnaire in SurveyMonkey that asks you to
share your experiences with and knowledge of intellectual property issues related to your
research, teaching, and editorial work (if relevant). Answers will provide data to help in
identifying trends in writing studies teacher-scholars’ and book/journal editors’ intellectual
property experiences and knowledge that can be used to formulate teaching and research
initiatives to better prepare teacher-scholars and book/journal editors for their work.
The survey is 20 questions and should take approximately 10–15 minutes to complete. Surveys
are anonymous. You will not be asked to provide your name.
The link to the questionnaire is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LG3SSXS
The study has been approved by the University of California Santa Barbara and Duquesne
University Institutional Review Boards; the full consent form is available on the SurveyMonkey
site.
We would be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to share your intellectual property
experiences and knowledge as they relate to your research, pedagogy, and editorial work. Thank
you!
Sincerely,
Karen Lunsford, University of California Santa Barbara
James P. Purdy, Duquesne University
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James P. Purdy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English/Writing Studies
University Writing Center Director
Duquesne University
620 College Hall | 412-396-1293 | pur...@duq.edu
Dear Colleagues:
Thank you to those of you who responded to the invitation to complete our intellectual property survey (see below for the formal invitation). We’re writing to encourage those of you who have not yet done so to complete the survey at your convenience. As a reminder it is available here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LG3SSXS. Many thanks!