"model narrative" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a story or account that serves as an example or template for others to follow. Example: The teacher gave her students a model narrative to guide their own writing assignments.
The Social + Capital formula's choice would be a complicated one either way, given the "Model Minority" narrative that clouds the story of Asian-American immigration.
Jokes are a model of narrative economy.
Appetitive frustration becomes the model of narrative frustration.
The chapter on the impeachment trial of Justice Samuel Chase, another defeat for Jefferson, is a model of narrative history written by someone who knows the law.
Director Nancy Meckler and choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa clearly think not, because their new production of A Streetcar Named Desire for Scottish Ballet is a model of narrative clarity.
Each is a model of narrative restraint, but in combination they combust, conveying the intensely painful experience of this disease in the literary equivalent of quadraphonic sound.
A model of narrative and summary, the rhythmically supple "Burial of a Fisherman in Hydra" concludes: "in the imagination of the living / The fall from glory is the fall from being.
The quotes from Sexton and Plath grate on the fabric of Purcell's instrumentation, while the triple plot adds confusion to a work that for many is a model of narrative clarity.
This revised first chapter is a model of narrative ingenuity — a sleekly moving seven pages that introduces us, with seeming effortlessness, to the story's main characters, and to the central plot of marital infidelity.
But, at this point, we would have gladly settled for the routine competence of a George Roy Hill, whose national epic "Hawaii" (1966), put up against "Australia," is a model of narrative rectitude.
