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Purpose: Thisstudy aimed to explain creative thinking patterns, including imaginative thinking,divergent thinking, and lateral thinking of students in scientific work. Thescientific work studied was in the form of the Student Creativity Program at Malang State University, Indonesia. Research Methods: This study used a qualitativeapproach with content analysis method. The data were in the form of sentences, sentence groups,paragraphs, paragraph clusters, and whole text. The data source of thisresearch was the writing ofstudent scientific work. The data were collectedthrough surveys, documentation studies, and interviews.nbsp;Theprocess of data analysis wasgrouped into three stages, namely data reduction, data presentation, andconclusion drawing.Findings:The findings of this study indicatedthat (1) the pattern of imaginative thinking in student scientific work appeared in the diversity of ideas based on experience and use of metaphoricallanguage. Ideas were born through simple propositions in paragraph form. (2) Divergent thinkingpatterns in student scientific work could be seen from thediversity of ideas and techniques for problem solving. Criteria for markers ofdivergent thinking patterns were characterized byoriginality, flexibility or elaboration. (3) Lateral thinking patterns instudent scientific work could be seen from the use of a variety of unique ideas according to thecomplexity of problem solving. Implications for Researchand Practice: Basedon the results of the study, it can be concluded that creative thinkingpatterns of students in scientific work showed the use of variousforms of ideas in accordance with the complexity of problem solving. Thefindings of this study contribute to our understanding of the importance ofusing creative thinking patterns in scientific writing. However, for furtherresearch it is recommended that we examine creative thinking patterns withdifferent levels of objects so that the findings of this study appear morewidely in various levels.
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