Writing Prompt: Visual Literacy Narrative

Youve spent the majority of this progression thinking about, writing about,
creating, and responding to comics. Now its time to construct your visual literacy
narrative about them!
A literacy narrative is a narrative account of how you gained literacy (i.e.
the ability to both use and understand a particular form of reading or writing in
relation to your culture). In this case, you will be constructing a narrative about
how you came to understand comics (even weird ones like the one above). Possible
questions to guide your visual literacy narrative include:

When did you first experience comics? How did you understand/read
them during that first experience?
How did you come to understand comics more? What resources helped
you in understanding comics?
What visual rhetoric terms are particularly helpful for you in
interpreting comics?

What did you learn from our first exercise? How do you typically
connect to comic strips (as a form of entertainment, emotionally,
narratively)? What did your choice of a comic strip reveal about you?
What did you learn from creating a comic strip? Did it give you a
better understanding of comics? How did creating a comic strip differ
from reading comic strips? How did it change the way you read comic
strips?
What was it like responding to a peers comic strip? Did you see a
difference between your peers comic strip and professional comic
strips? What does this tell you about comic strips as a whole?
Ultimately, how do you understand comic strips? What can comic
strips do? Can you see yourself reading more comic strips, and if so,
why?

The requirements for this essay are:

3-4 pages double-spaced

Typed and printed, 12 pt. font, 1 inch margins
Narrative Format remember, a narrative is a story, not an essay!
Incorporation of ideas from class, Calvin & Hobbes, essays we read,
and personal experience

How I Will Be Grading the Assignment

Quality of your writing is there a purpose to what you wrote? Is it

clear enough to be understood? Does your writing address the
prompt? Are you thinking critically about your relationship with
comics?
Cohesion of your writing is it organized? Does your writing have a
progression to it? Do you follow the traditional elements of narrative
(exposition->rising action->climax->falling action->resolution)?
Coherence/clarity of your writing do I understand what you wrote?
Do you?
Voice, tone, and audience in your text Did you consider your audience
(me)? Are you using an appropriate voice and tone for your purpose in
writing (i.e. storytelling)?
Grammar/Spelling/Punctuation did you proofread and catch those
obvious mistakes?