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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Narrative threads"”.
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A domain-independent model of suspense in narrative
Many computational models of narrative have focussed on the structure of the narrative world. Such models have been implemented in a wide variety of systems, often linked to characters’ goals and plans, where the goal of creating suspenseful stories is baked into the structure of each system. There …
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Zat Lun: A Family History
… a project consisting of multiple and interwoven narrative threads that question the boundaries of literary nonfiction: Where does fiction end and nonfiction begin? What stories do we believe to be true? Why do we believe them? The book is in part a subversive response to a lifetime of being asked …
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Recovering from Silence. Composing Self in Time, Spaces, and Friendships: A Narrative Inquiry with Four Mothers Supporting Adolescent Children through Long-Term Addictions Treatment
… is an under-researched context. This study is a narrative inquiry into the experiences of four mothers parenting children through long-term addiction treatment. Narrative inquirers explore experience by attending to features of temporality, sociality, and place as they feature in stories that are …
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Disclosure of Sexual Orientation in Primary Health Care: Gay Men's Stories of Coming Out
… context of primary health care. This study is a narrative inquiry into three gay men’s experiences of “coming out,” or disclosure of their sexual orientation in primary health care. Three narrative accounts form the basis for the development and discussion of three narrative threads: Disclosure …
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Player-Response: On the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature
… possible to analyze video games alongside other narrative forms, such as novels and films. Video games now involve rich stories that require input and interaction on behalf of the player. This level of agency likens video games to a kind of modern hypertext, networking and weaving various …
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A narrative inquiry into the experience of a practical nursing graduate with private tutoring
… time and educational accommodations. In this Narrative Inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000), my co-participant and I go on a journey together to explore how a graduate from an Ontario Registered Practical Nursing program with a diagnosed disability impacting her learning experienced …
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“It’s Like an Iceberg”: Storying the Student Experience of Classroom-Based Anthropometric Measurement
… impacts of classroom-based AM on students. Using narrative inquiry methodology, I spoke with five adults aged 23-32 who disclosed experiences with classroom-based AM. The influence of AM on ideas about weight and health, relationships with food and exercise, and body image were discussed among …
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Using the organizational and narrative thread structures in an e-book to support comprehension.
… that present and relate the organizational and narrative structures, and moreover, reveal the thematic structures. This thesis addresses the problem of providing readers with effective scaffolding of multiple structures of an e-Book in the user interface to support reading for comprehension. …
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Falsos mitos e heróis vencidos em O Pagador de Promessas e O Bem-Amado: do texto dramático para a tela
… loser heroes and the false myths, as well as the narrative elements, in the passage of dramatic text to the screen, considering the historical context of Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s. The plays belong to the phase of "maturity" of the playwright. In the first play, we have the presence of the …
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Twelve Tales of Engineering in the "Real World:" Narratives of Newcomers' Agency in Transitions to Engineering Work
… who have sustainability and ethics skills. Two narrative threads emerge from these reports: that engineering education does not adequately prepare engineers with the skills needed for industry, and that preparation for industry is imperative in order to address problems in society. However, …
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Narratives of trust, accountability and autonomy in Welsh education
… school teachers across Wales, using a model of narrative inquiry to examine their individual stories of trust, accountability and professional autonomy. Each narrative is analysed to investigate the ways in which the participants experience the three associated concepts, paying particular …