In contrast to these narrative surveys, meta-analysis allows revising the relevant empirical literature in a more formal and objective manner.
However, consistent with the mixed results of narrative surveys, studies display a very high dispersion of estimates, ranging from 0.91 to 2.54.
With a nod to John Dos Passos, Packer offers a gripping narrative survey of today's hard times.
As George Packer writes in "The Unwinding," a gripping narrative survey of contemporary America, the Hartzells were "estranged from their surviving relatives, most of whom were heavy drinkers.
First, Brooks praises Packer's "gripping narrative survey" of recession-era life, comparing it to earlier efforts like that of John Dos Passos.
Analyses directed to our primary and secondary study hypotheses will involve largely quantitative data from pre- and post-surveys of both doctors and patients, and also patient and doctor use of the Internet portals; subsequent qualitative analyses for secondary aims will utilize data obtained from patients' narrative survey information and patient and PCP focus groups.
With no reverence for chronology, Meyer (a New Yorker contributor who was included in the magazine's 2010 200 Under 40" list) tells this character's story through a narrative that surveys multiple generations, including diary entries by Eli's son Peter and the struggles of his modern-day great-granddaughter, Jeannie.
A French auteur so elusive he makes Godard seem like a publicity hound, the eighty-six-year-old Marker creates dazzling films that combine documentary footage and fictional narrative to survey history, politics, current events, and his own peripatetic life.
Now, in a new show at the Grolier Club, "In Pursuit of a Vision," you see the American counterpart to that narrative in a survey of the collections of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass.
In 1839 Fitzroy published two volumes of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle Between the Years 1826 and 1836, Describing Their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe.
This contrasts to most reviews in ecology, which use a "narrative" approach to survey the current state of knowledge.
