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A spring board to fly

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By Aafiyat Nazar WHY creative writing? It is generally accepted that when students have stimulating environments, they can perform better. Apart from the environment, one of the important aspects, which facilitate learning, is students’ knowledge of the self. The more students will be aware of their potential the better they will perform. However, students may not be aware of their potentials until they get a chance to stretch their minds. Photo credit: Freepik Involving students in challenging task, be it curricular or co-curricular are the effective ways to do so. Creative writing is one of the effective ways to provide such an opportunity. It also results in improving students' confidence, thinking, writing and many other skills. It has been observed that students have not been given opportunity to write without a book or any reference. Creative writing is an excellent way to broaden a student’s imagination writes Aafiyat Nazar The widespread rote learning system in the