Outline:

1.     Topic sentence:

The relatively new emphasis on ‘learning to learn’ has creativity at its heart.

1)    Major supporting idea:

Creativity helps to equip young people with the skills, ability, confidence and attitudes to enable them to work imaginatively, to transfer and apply new knowledge in different contexts and work towards new and valuable goals”

Citation: Guy Claxton (2002: 5)

2)    Major supporting idea:

a creative approach to learning will encourage a fascination for task, risk taking, a preference for complexity, a willingness to ask many questions and a desire to display results, consult others and go beyond the conventional.

Citation: Cropley (2001: 45)

3)    Major supporting idea:

Creativity encourages critical and reflective thinking and produces excited, enthusiastic, inquiry driven learners.

Citation: Creative Partnerships (2005: 2)

4)    Major supporting idea:

Creativity is seem not merely as a bolt on to the curriculum but as central to the whole process

Citation: Peter Dixon (2006)

Write the first draft based on the given outline in English:

The relatively new emphasis on ‘learning to learn’ has creativity at its heart. Guy Claxton (2002: 5) states, “Creativity helps to equip young people with the skills, ability, confidence and attitudes to enable them to work imaginatively, to transfer and apply new knowledge in different contexts and work towards new and valuable goals”. Cropley (2001: 45) shows how a creative approach to learning “will encourage a fascination for task, risk taking, a preference for complexity, a willingness to ask many questions and a desire to display results, consult others and go beyond the conventional”. This broad and inclusive definition resonates with the recent findings by Creative Partnerships (2005: 2), who conclude that creativity “encourages critical and reflective thinking and produces excited, enthusiastic, enquiry driven learners”.

Creativity is seen not merely as a bolt on to the curriculum but as central to the whole process.

“Creativity is not just art or music, something else to tick off in our plans for Tuesday afternoon. It is not even an ingredient to add to the curriculum diet but the inspiration and motivation integral to the process of learning. In fact it is the underpinning and expression of true learning.” (Peter Dixon. 2006)