He loves the mess and sprawl of ordinary human experience, and the challenge he sets himself is to remain true to that chaos while extracting from it a measure of narrative order and aesthetic grace.
For unfamiliar narratives, children were asked to generate a story using the wordless picture book Frog, Where Are You? (Mayer, 1969), a widely used measure of narrative ability (Berman & Slobin, 1994; Strömqvist & Verhoeven, 2004).
Frozen, which was co-produced by John Lasseter, rolls up all three, and it's a measure of its narrative grip that the deeper in you get, the more the songs recede to a respectful distance.
Cast as a memoir, this novel takes place in a Parisian hospital for gravely disfigured veterans of World War I -- men who are literally faceless but have nonetheless retained shreds of humanity; it is a measure of the narrative's artful artlessness that it reads as if it were truly nonfiction.
The authors suggest that participants showed more consistent improvement on standard aphasia measures and clinician judgements of narrative discourse after Constraint-Induced Aphasia Therapy with focus on communicative needs, compared with the approach offering free choice of communication modalities.
Due to the heterogeneous reporting of outcome measures, a narrative synthesis was applied.
Given the heterogeneity of study types, models of care planning and team organisation and outcome measures, a narrative approach to review and analysis of extracted data was undertaken.
Reissman suggests that traditional ideas about reliability and validity do not apply to narrative analyses but she outlines four measures through which we can make claims for thetrustworthiness of narrative interpretations [ 31].
Graphic and upsetting in equal measure, the narrative of the talented yet troubled artist who struggles to reconcile her artistic ambitions with society's demand for celebrity satisfies our hunger on all counts.
The quantified measures of the proportions of individual narratives supporting different categories should of course be interpreted with caution, since the informants might support a certain view without having expressed it in the narratives.
