If Joan Didion was correct in observing that "we tell ourselves stories in order to live," the will to survival was evident everywhere -- in the poems, of course, but also in written narratives that circled and spun through people's lives.
Using a pre-test immediate pre-test immediatepost-test delayed it compost-test delayed of focused and unfocused written CF on the accuracy with which Japanese university students used the English indefinite and definite articles to denote first and anaphoric reference in written narratives.
Difficulties in writing narratives may persist after elementary school, since the performance of young adults with ADHD in narrative texts is often poorer than that of their peers (Miranda et al., 2013).
Godard, a master of the pun and of the aphorism — of the verbal montage — didn't see how he could sustain his condensational art in an extended written narrative.
Humanists have long argued that when doctors cultivate the skills involved in constructing a written narrative — an ear for plot, images and elisions — they become abler, more humane doctors.
At the end of the second semester, the students were again asked to submit another written narrative in which they described how they have learned in their coursework to date, based on the same questions.
Three sets of information were collected in 2008: individual written narratives; semi-structured in-depth interviews; and photographs with annotations written by each woman.
In our study, written narratives aimed to capture individual experiences, whereas focus group discussions facilitated interaction between informants to explore group norms, attitudes, and processes.
In the first analysis, the written narratives were read and re-read several times.
