Assignment
Using Comics to Reflect on Academic Work
Short Description:
Students are asked to reflect on their experience writing a required “literature review” for the course through a first-person “comic.” The visual narrative format allows students to come to terms with their own experience of what was hard, easy, or confusing about the literature review process and express it in a creative way.
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Learning Outcomes:
To reflect on the process of writing and executing a thorough Review of the Literature on a topic within the field of Communication Studies
Discipline:
Communication StudiesInformation Literacy concepts:
- Defines Information Need (ACRL 1, SCONUL 1&2, ANZIL 1)
- Finds Information (ACRL 2, SCONUL 3&4, ANZIL 2&4, ANCIL 5)
- Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4)
- Ethics (ACRL 5, SCONUL 6, ANZIL 6, ANCIL 7)
- Research as Inquiry (Frame 4)
- Scholarship as Conversation (Frame 5)
- Searching as Strategic Exploration (Frame 6)
Individual or Group:
Suggested Citation:
Scheibel, Dean. "Using Comics to Reflect on Academic Work." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments), 2015. https://projectcora.org/assignment/using-comics-reflect-academic-work.All assignments contributed to this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike United States License