فاعلية عمليات الكتابة في الكتابة الإبداعية عند طلبة قسم اللغة العربية
The search throws know: 1) The effectiveness of writing processes in creative writing among students of the Arabic language department. 2) The difference in creative writing according to the gender variable (male, female). In order to achieve the goal of the research; the researchers followed the procedures of the experimental approach, and adopted an experimental design with partial control. In the intentional way, the researchers chose the department of Arabic Language in the College of Education Ibn Rushd - for Human Sciences -University of Baghdad, and randomly chose Division (C) to represent the experimental group with (37) male and female students, and division (b). To represent the control group by (36) male and female students, as the research sample reached (73) male and female students, and after the researchers rewarded the students of the two research groups, they prepared a creative writing test that included (22). A paragraph distributed between creative writing skills, and verified its validity and stability, and extracted the discriminatory power, and coefficients of the difficulty of its paragraphs, as they built a standard; To correct its paragraphs, and verify the validity of the standard after presenting it to a group of experts and arbitrators, and after applying the test post-test on the students of the research sample, and after analyzing the data statistically, the two researchers concluded the following: 1) There is a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the students of the two research groups in the creative writing test in favor of the experimental group. There is no statistically significant difference due to the gender variable (male, female). In light of the research results, the researchers reached a number of conclusions, most notably: 1) Writing processes are effective in expression and composition in general and creative writing in particular. Because it provides students with important self-skills that contribute to mastering creative writing, as it is a new practice that students are rarely familiar with. The researchers made several recommendations, most notably: 1) Adopting writing processes in teaching expression and composition in general and creative writing in particular for students of the Arabic language department, because of its clear impact on students’ education. In completion of this research, the researchers suggested conducting a number of studies, most notably: 1) Conducting a study according to the writing processes and identifying their effectiveness in functional writing, among the students of the Arabic language department. (Published abstract)