Developing Creative Thinking to Improve Academic Writing

Azza Abugharsa, originally from Misrata and a PhD holder in TESL and Linguistics, has recently developed interests in what she likes to refer to as a Contextual Frame Philosophy which evaluates everything within the situational circumstances in which they occur. This thinking style has helped Dr. Abugharsa in her teaching career, more specifically in the creative writing class. Dr. Abugharsa believes that a persons opinion about something is one way to look at it, not the correct way to look at it. She also emphasizes that there is no such thing as a wrong opinion; i.e. all opinions come to existence because somebody sees at least one aspect in them that serves his/her specific needs behind coming up with such an opinion to begin with. In this regard, Dr. Abugharsa emphasizes observing the given topic based on its relevant context in order to elicit ideas that are related to the topic and cover it comprehensively.