Developing Creative Thinking to Improve Academic Writing

About the Book

Developing Creative Thinking to Improve Academic Writing, Part One fosters skills of critical thinking needed in academia in which graduation papers and other kinds of research assignments are written. Moreover, the book enhances the abilities of intermediate and upper-intermediate level international students to reflect on their own metacognition in order to produce well-structured essays. The purpose of this book is to help the students develop a high level of cognitive skills in order to analyze, examine, verify, and develop ideas required to process topics from new and/or multiple unfamiliar standpoints and generate as many details as possible about it. Improving critical thinking skills encourages the students to create new mental thinking channels and promote their own philosophy in their writing to make it thoroughly sophisticated.

About the Author

Azza Abugharsa, born and raised in Misrata, is highly interested in using critical thinking to build philosophies needed in academic writing. She graduated from Misrata University in 2002 with an MA in Linguistics. Few months after she got her Master’s degree in 2008 in Business English, she started her PhD. program in Oklahoma State University in USA and graduated in 2014 with a PhD. in TESL and Linguistics. She has participated in many conferences to discuss the importance of using critical thinking in essay writing in order to analyze unstated assumptions. It is Dr. Abugharsa’s desire to develop academic writing strategies that focus on creativity and observation to explore beyond traditional evaluations and judgments and discover unobserved alternatives.