Community of Online Research Assignments

Lesson Plan June 10, 2015

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.

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

Participation Type

Additional Instructor Resources (e.g. in-class activities, worksheets, supplements, etc.)

Assessment or Criteria for Success

Suggested Citation

Scheibel, Dean. "Using Comics to Reflect on Academic Work." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments). 2015. https://projectcora.org/lesson/using-comics-reflect-academic-work