TY - BOOK AU - Tan, Arsenia B. TI - An Introduction to critical thinking and creative writing: for freshmen college students SN - 9717070911 AV - P 153 .T161 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Mandaluyong City, Philippines PB - Academic Publishing Corporation KW - ENGLISH LANGUAGE -- COMPOSITION AND EXERCISE N1 - 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 N2 - A textbook is a valuable tool for the acquisition of knowledge and for developing and sharpening the skill of learners. It is for this fact that the author has designed this textbook to be highly useful and flexible both for the modern students and for the teachers of English who believe that class activities should be centered on the individual student's on- going learning process ER -