The Secret Language of Comics: Visual Thinking and Writing
ENG101.04 Fall 2018
Tying my shoe laces When I was little, my mom taught me how to tie my shoe laces. It took me a while to get the hang of tying my shoe laces, with all the looping and knotting that I had to get past. Slowly, with practice, I learned how to tie my shoe laces […]
Read moreLet me ask you to do something: imagine your room from when you were ten years old. What color were your sheets? The walls? Were you allowed to eat in your room? What sort of toys were on the ground (or neatly stored in their place you were a more orga…
Read moreThis assignment, by far, has the most stressful yet rewarding assignment. The writing process for my literacy narrative consisted of me turning emotions and memories into words. When we were told to think of a moment concerning literature, a vivid image of second grade popped into my head. I could see the narrative play out… Continue Reading →
Read moreThis was one of the more difficult assignments for me, so far this year. I thought the “Tracing Maus” assignment was going to be the toughest, but this was definitely a challenge. Normally, I would’ve thought that because this is a drawing assignment, it should have come easy to me because I do, in fact, … Continue reading Analysis on Literacy Narrative Comic →
Read moreI found creating this comic to be valuable for several reasons: Creating a comic through a multistep process encouraged me to analyze my story from multiple perspectives. Through this method, I was able to pick out details for my comic that weren’t evident when I wrote my first, alphabetical literacy narrative. I proved to myself…Continue reading »
Read moreWhen I first began working on my literacy narrative, I did not quite understand how I could turn it into a comic. Considering my subpar artistic skills, the image that I had in mind of the comic I would create looked like a disaster. It was not until I cooled my nerves and read over Scott … Continue reading Literacy Narrative Comic →
Read moreOnce I completed the final version of my literary comic, I looked back at my rough draft to see the before and after of two additional weeks of brainstorming. I was truly pleased with my final product, especially my incorporation of the suggestions I received from my peers and Professor Morgen. Meeting with Professor Morgen, … Continue reading Literacy Comic Reflection – A Result of Creativity →
Read moreThrough literacy narrative part 2, I was able to complete many learning objectives for this class that I was never able to do before. By creating my own comic, I was able to implement many of the learning objectives needed for a comic such as composing texts using multiple modes, practicing writing as a process […]
Read moreHaving finished the literacy narrative comic, I feel I can say with confidence that I demonstrated visual thinking skills as well as the ability to evaluate ideas of others. Writing the literacy narrative is one task, but putting it into a visual presentation on paper is another. During the process of creating my comic, I…
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