12018-03-16T21:28:19+00:00Susan Gardnerd75a28c6570c5c305a038bfe36f9b0334fdf86d613plain2018-03-16T21:30:06+00:00Susan Gardnerd75a28c6570c5c305a038bfe36f9b0334fdf86d6Librarian Commentary: 84% of the students surveyed in a Project Information Literacy study said the most difficult step of the research process is getting started.
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1media/Red_ComicBG.jpg2018-01-24T22:02:03+00:00"The Call"28plain2020-03-23T20:12:47+00:00As students begin their journey in my class, they may refuse my call to begin the literature review assignment. But this is common at the beginning of the semester. Students are coming back from vacation, and even though they know that they have a lot to do, they often don’t want to start doing the work.
Thus, in Justice Domingo’s comic, with her arms folded across her chest, head down on her desk, she has convinced herself that she has “nothing to write” about, will “fail this class,” and even questions whether she even “really need[s] to go to college.” Her attitude toward the lit review is represented as one of defeat. She is powerless against the assignment and the devil professor who assigned her the lit review. The word “fuck” is profanity, and that which is profane shows disrespect for sacred things. If we wanted to think about the “literature review” as something sacred, awesome, and dreaded, Justice’s profanity might be interpreted to mean that she believes she will be “fucked” if she has to write the lit review.
