Course: FYE 101 First Year Experience

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Reading and Audio Visual Presentation

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Creative Thinking

Creative Thinking
Thinking creatively is helpful in college because it can give you a new point of view in solving problems. You can stimulate your creative thinking by:

Improving your imagination
- invent new uses for familiar objectives
- play games with numbers and words

Thinking in all directions
- reconsider ideas that have failed
- pair unconventional ideas to common problems

Suspending judgement
- generate new ideas
- don't just debate old ideas

Be persistent and don't give up if at first you don't succeed!

To learn more, read the article, Creative Thinking Skills by Stella Cottrell.

Memory and Mnemonic Devices
Active Reading and Taking Notes