Strategies for Applying Creativity to Problems and Issues
Stacy Fraunhoffer
Critical and Creative Thinking
Randall Vicks

There are several strategies we can use for applying creativity to problems and issues concerning the topic. Our topic is from last week regarding a Chinese man who thinks he has the right to sue his wife because she failed to inform him of plastic surgery that she had done prior to them meeting. He says that he has been misled because he thought his children would have her beautiful genes. He is suing her because she had ugly children. I would begin by taking the novel approach to encourage the readers to research each side of the story so they had all the facts. Then I would also improve on what the writer originally had said. I would also devise or modify any new information that I may come across. Strategies for promoting curiosity in this story can be done several ways. I believe the best way would be the novel approach. Doing things by taking the novel approach seems to be very effective and that is because it is done in a new and different way. The other strategies which are devising or modifying a process or system, inventing a new product or service, finding new uses for existing things, improving things, and inventing or redefining a concept also work well. You need to have enough information to effectively deal with the problem and to see it from all aspects. These various methods can be used for producing ideas to eliminate the bias from the original article. By using these different methods you are able to come up with more information that what you originally had presented, which helps to make the story more believable. I believe that you should use all the strategies that you can to make your topic more interesting. You want to use these strategies in a way that makes it interesting and keeps your readers curious.