Powerpoints

  • Shitty 1st Draft

    The first lesson I teach on the “shitty first draft,” is this one, Anne Lamott vs. ChatGPT. If you’re not interested in the above lesson but want to do a “says/does” analysis of Lamott’s piece, you may find an answer key for that here. The slideshow below provides an excellent refresher, as does this dialectical…

  • Culture Jamming

      Culture jamming (also called “subtervising”) is a form of protest that uses rhetorical savvy to draw attention to the faults of social institutions or to their manipulation of consumers. Culture jammers are inspired by the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, which described the power of mass media and advertising to shape society’s norms,…