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Teaching Creative Writing to Children by Using Storybooks as Learning Materials

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  Teaching Creative Writing to Children by Using Storybooks as Learning Materials Creative writing in children practices broader thinking and will certainly affect communication so that when speaking the selection of words spoken is quite good because it has been trained to write creatively. In terms of creative writing, the most relevant genre to learn is narrative. Because it involves both fiction and nonfiction elements in its structure, creation in stories should be done more often than other works. This is because narrative is one of the literary genres that children at a certain age start to be interested in. Children begin to recognize narrative texts when listening to stories, tales and jokes from adults. Therefore, the use of fiction reading for children is very significant in terms of creative writing. According to Aktaş (2003) Creative writing is based on the purpose of creating a fictional world. Fiction is an art form that processes materials extracted from certa...

This is Your Brain on Depression

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  This is Your Brain on Depression  Creating Your Path to Getting Better by Dr. Faith G. Harper            Dr. Faith explains the brain science behind depression and talks you through the different options out there for getting better. Because yes there are things you can do to feel good again (including drugs but avoiding spiraling successions of drug cocktails). If you need solid expert advice from someone who can also make your laugh ass off, this book's for you. This book contains 5 chapters, although not too many, but this book is complete with all the explanations given by Dr. Faith G. Harper. Not one important part is missed.      The first chapter explains the meaning of depression. Depression is a far more insidious problem, and sometimes it doesn't have anything to do with an identifiable loss. Before I read this book, I didn't understand what depression really was. Sometimes someone just says "I'm depressed" but, actually...