Elements of comics, such as cartoons, juxtaposed text and images, and visual and textual cues, can promote learning in textbooks. This project investigates instructional design as well as our learning process and analyzes the use of imagery in an introductory college-level computer science textbook. It evaluates the text in terms of its efficacy as an instructional text and shows ways the text could benefit from the use of comic elements to improve upon comprehension, retention, and reader involvement.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Bradley, William E.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04D244M

Advisor

• Higgins, Lorraine D.
• Smith, Ruth L.

Year

• 2004

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Scientific and Professional Communication, Technical

Rights statement

• In Copyright