Question

Research Your Comic Strip

When you are thinking about which careers you would like to pursue, it can be helpful to find out what a typical day in a certain job is like. For this assignment, you will create a “day in the life” comic strip that shows the job duties of someone who has a job in operations management.

“But I’ve never worked in any of those jobs,” you might say. You can research one of those jobs in one or more ways:

Think about what you learned in the unit.
Use some of the research you completed in Activity 1, if you completed that activity.
Interview a friend, family member, or neighbor who has had a job in some type of operations management.
Use different browsers and search engines to find information. For example, you might use search terms such as “quality control manager day in the life” or “purchasing agent everyday tasks.”
You will probably have to use more than one research method to get the information you need.

Step 2: Rough Out Your Script
Most comic book artists create a script before they begin drawing. Here are some steps to help you.

Think about what you have learned.
Put the tasks in time order: What happens early in the workday, in the middle of the day, and before the person leaves work?
Will your comic include dialogue? That means words spoken between people.
What terminology does someone in this job use? Decide whether you will use it in your comic.
What are the most important things you want your reader to know about this job?
Step 3: Draw Your Comic
Now that you know what information you want to include and in what order, start drawing your comic. Don’t worry about being a great artist. You can use stick figures if you want to. Just make sure a reader can understand the sequence of events and learn about this career path.

You can create your comic by folding a piece of paper into sections (one section per panel) or by using illustration software or presentation software (one screen or one slide per panel). If you draw your comic, take a picture of the final comic and submit the image.

Submit your comic to the dropbox.

Answer 1

"Comics" is used as a non-count noun, and thus is used with the singular form of a verb, in the way the words "politics" or "economics" are, to refer to the medium, so that one refers to the "comics industry" rather than the "comic industry".
"Comic" as an adjective also has the meaning of "funny", or as pertaining to comedians, which can cause confusion and is usually avoided in most cases ("comic strip" being a well-entrenched exception).

Step-by-step explanation:

Comic strip conversations are a technique developed by Carol Gray to help people with autism develop greater social understanding. Comic strip conversations provide visual representations of the different levels of communication that take place in a conversation, using symbols, stick figure drawings and colour.

Comic books also provide authentic material to depict how grammar is used in conversations as opposed to sentences without background. They are funny and will engage the students. It also promotes learning different cultures as comic books are used across the world which will further boost vocabulary.

So let's focus first on the five features that are probably the most important: image style, words and word containers, word-image relationships, undrawn inferences, and layout. You can spend hours exploring them, but here's a brief introduction to each.