DRIVING THEORETICAL QUESTIONS
CHECKLIST
 Do my driving theoretical questions zero in on a specific and
visible sign in American culture?
 Are my driving questions theoretical rather than practical or
evaluative/opinion based?
 Do my driving theoretical questions have an interesting “slant”?
Are they unorthodox, interesting, fresh?
 Do my driving theoretical questions stimulate my own curiosity
and challenge my powers of persuasion?
 Do my driving theoretical questions contain “below the waterline”
language that will force me to explore the invisible realities
“beneath” the sign I’ve chosen to analyze?