Powerpoints
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“How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” writing prompts
I use the quotes and prompts in these slides to help my students prepare to write their literacy narratives.
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The 3-story Thesis
I like Amy Guptill’s explanation of the “three story thesis” for concretizing the difference between a high-school level thesis and a college-level thesis. These slides review her examples and also break Ursula LeGuin’s “Carrier Bag Theory” thesis into three levels, since I introduced them to that around the same time.
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ChatGPT vs. Anne Lamott
The excerpts on the right are all from Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts.” The excerpts on the left are ChatGPT’s responses to the prompt, “Explain that all writers write terrible first drafts and that doing so is an important part of the writing process.” You can find the whole of ChatGPT’s response here. I sometimes…
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Freewriting with Peter Elbow
I like to have students return to previous freewrites, particularly freewrites in which they believe they exhausted what they had to say. They are often surprised to discover that given a fresh start on a different day, they can marshal a whole host of new ideas. These slides will help you introduce the freewriting concept.…