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Creativity: Our Helpful and Resourceful Friend

Irina Prieto Maroa

George Brown College

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Part I: Short Answer Questions

Answer each of the following questions in complete sentences. Each answer should be between

3-5 sentences. For each answer, refer to specific examples from the essay to support your points

but do not use quotations.

1. Explain the thesis statement (central idea) of the essay. Identify at least three main

supporting points of the thesis.

The author states about how overstimulation may be ending up with boredom and therefore

undermining our creativity. At the beginning he indicates that some experts say that our brains

need boredom to be creative because, boredom allows us to process thoughts and be creative; he

also speaks from his personal experience, and how growing up in a little town with little things to

do led him to fabricate his own toys and create his own games; finally, he shows us some cases

of absence of creativity, such as, the rise of sequels movies and reality TV shows.

2. Who is the intended audience for this reading and what is the purpose (to entertain, to

inform, to persuade—or a combination of more than one) for the author writing this

article?

His blog’s audience, his intention is to inform and persuade about what he thinks over the

boredom and its effect on creativity.

3. Is the essay formal, general, or informal? Or a combination?

Informal, it does not provide any formal source at all, and is based on his own experience and

observation.

4. In your own words, explain what the author meant in paragraph 21 when he states, “Still,

it’s worth keeping an eye on the link between our vanishing boredom and our lack of
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innovation. It’s the sort of trend that could literally destroy the world without anyone

realizing what the root problem is.”

It’s a call to action on how the lack of creativity due to the absence of boredom could lead us

to the stagnation of the innovation and eventually our development.

5. Do you agree with Adams’ argument (thesis)? Explain why or why not. Use specific

examples to explain your opinion.

No, I believe creativity comes out of a need, for example, everything we’ve created has been

the result of a necessity, we have writing, it wasn’t created because of some’s boredom, was

created because there was a need for communicating something beyond spoken words, same

thing happened with literature, we needed to tell stories to preserve our culture, so it was

born, same with music, among other greatest invention on earth, some of them so simple that

we take for granted that they always have been there

Part II: Introduction and Body Paragraph

1. Choosing ONE of the topics below, fill in the Outline in point form.

Note, you are only writing an Introduction and one Body Paragraph not an entire

essay. You may choose which paragraph to write (Body Paragraph 1, 2, 3), and must

remember to choose an appropriate transition for the paragraph being written.

2. Write an Introduction and ONE Body Paragraph of an essay.

The Introduction should be 5-8 sentences in length, and the Body Paragraph

should be 8-12 sentences in length. The two paragraphs must be word processed, double

spaced, and in 12 pt. Times New Roman or 10 pt. Arial font.

Topics:
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a. Argue whether or not you think creativity has had an effect on the development of our

day-to-day lives. (culture, economy, or personal)

OR

b. Argue whether or not society embraces or invalidates the importance of ‘downtime’.

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NAME: IRINA PRIETO MAROA

OUTLINE

I. Introduction:

1) Attention Grabber: You may say that a character as Little Finger from the Game Of

Thrones series is a very sly and despicable character, you could say something similar

about other characters of the series, as well, or even about the screenwriters, but they

actually are creative characters and persons, the truth is, we all are creative persons, we

use our creativity to solve everything in our lives, from the simplest to the most complex

situations we face.

2) Filler: Every day we have to take decisions and actions about everything in our lives,

from choosing what to dress at the beginning of our days, passing through deciding what

to cook, to the most complicated problem we could face at any moment. Creativity is a

main part of who we are, creativity stars at every facet of the human life, from the good

joke somebody may come on a party full of scholars, to the cure for cancer, our

creativity, sometimes define us, sometimes helps us to solve problems and some others

saves us.

3) Thesis: a) Topic: How we use our creativity everyday for the most basics and

complex situations we face everyday of our lives

b) Focus: Creativity as a daily tool used to face our everyday problems

and situations

c) Main Points:
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1.1. The use we give to creativity to solve daily basics situations and problems.

1.2. The importance of creativity to face problems in our work environment and how it

allows us to grow up in our working fields.

1.3. Creative ideas are not only, huge ideas of a revolutionary invention, are also a tool for

personal development

II. Body Paragraph #:1

1) Transition: Creativity whether it defines us, helps us or save us

2) Topic Sentence: sometimes our very own survival depends on how creative we can be, if

we are creative enough, we might be successful or fail.

3) Supporting Detail 1: Let’s start from the personal matter, if I am not creative enough

writing these lines, I might fail at my purpose which is prove to you that we use creativity

all along to work out our daily life matters

4) Supporting Detail 2: now let’s go to your position, you need to be creative at your work,

otherwise you would do the same thing everyday and you couldn’t develop yourself as a

worker, so you would never be promoted or get a raise.

5) Supporting Detail 3: then, let’s go to some poor country in Latin America, where the

creativity of their people allows them to survive, finding ways to feed themselves to not

die from starvation; or getting water; or whatever other supplies the need for basic

survival.

6) Concluding Sentence: Creativity give us a tool to solve every kind of problems, to satisfy

certain needs, is a useful skill in whatever situation you might find yourself.
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Submitted by: Irina Prieto Maroa

Submitted to:
Date: April 29, 2019

Writing Assignment Criteria (10%)

CRITERIA: 0.25 1 2
1. Assignment uses proper Title Page and Headers;
not needs
Outline is filled out in point form; Paragraphs are met
met work
word processed, double spaced, and in proper font
2. Short Answers identify the key points, clarify what
has been read, and are supported with relevant not needs
met
details from the reading met work
3. Introduction has a strong Attention Grabber, Thesis, not needs
and Filler met
met work
4. Body paragraph has a strong Transition, Topic
Sentence, Supporting Details, and Concluding not needs
met
Sentence met work
5. Assignment evidences correct grammar, not needs
punctuation, and spelling met
met work
TOTAL: /10

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