An Introduction to critical thinking and creative writing : for freshmen college students / Arsenia B. Tan

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter I. Creative Communication For Freshmen Students -- Chapter II. Do Your Statement Make Sense When You Speak or Write About Things? -- Chapter III. Looking For Effective Sentence Structure? -- Chapter IV. How ideas are Generated Sentence By Sentence -- Chapter V. The Paragraph as the Structural Framework of the Generated Sentences -- Chapter VI. Getting Started... What's The Problem -- Chapter VII. What do you Next? -- Chapter VIII. Have a Critical Eye.. Be a Good Observer -- Chapter IX. Observing More... People -- Chapter X. Be Creative... Use Words That Build Pictures -- Chapter XI. Having Troubles in Analyzing and Interpreting Ideas? -- Chapter XII. Be Persuasive... Sell Ideas -- Chapter XIII. Get Involve in Discussions and Know How to Reason Effectively -- Chapter XIV. Getting To Know the Mass Media More and Better -- Chapter XV. Its Fun to Go Into Flights of Imagination and Create Imaginative Writing -- Chapter XVI. Learning the Use of Technical Language Through Research -- Chapter XVII. Using the Library Resources for Research -- Chapter XVIII. Gathering Your Materials and Taking Notes -- Chapter XIX. Outlining the Ideas, Footnoting and Making the Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.

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