Describes some of the factors that influence critical judgments regardless of operative theoretical stance. Identifies several factors which may contribute to effective performance criticism. (MS)

How to make written narrations informal and conversational in style. (Author)

Reconsiders propensity of elderly to talk about past from social constructionist perspective, offering sociological alternative to life review interpretation. Data from life narrative interviews with 30 near-centenarians illustrate importance of situated narrative challenges for initiating construction and communication of life stories. Presents…

Explores narrative theory and research in fields allied with professional communication to clarify the value of narrative in the discipline. Addresses the move in many fields to reconceptualize research as narrative. Frames narrative within postmodernism, and examines the centrality of ethnography. Discusses implications of postmodernist…

This dissertation investigates Wolof Sufi oral narrative structure and its relationship with the context of production of the narratives. The findings of this study indicate that the structure of these narratives is characterized by (1) the salience of the complicating action, (2) the presence a pre-story stage, which announces the general topic,…

We report a study comparing the narrative abilities of 12 adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) or Asperger Syndrome (AS) versus 12 matched controls. The study focuses on the use of referential expressions (temporal expressions and anaphoric pronouns) during a story-telling task. The aim was to assess pragmatics skills in people with HFA/AS in…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of time-compressed narration and representational adjunct images on a learner's ability to recall and recognize information. The experiment was a 4 Audio Speeds (1.0 = normal vs. 1.5 = moderate vs. 2.0 = fast vs. 2.5 = fastest rate) x Adjunct Image (Image Present vs. Image Absent) factorial…

This article examines whether there is any difference between the effect of oral and written corrective feedback (CF) on learners' accurate use of English articles. To this end, the current research presents the results of a quasi-experimental study with a pretest, immediate-posttest, delayed-posttest design, using 12 intact intermediate…

This study examines children's flow experiences in an interactive social game environment. A total of 33 children aged from 7 to 9 years participated in the study for 6 weeks. Data were collected through observations and interviews. In order to measure the flow experiences of the children, items of a flow scale were administered to the children…

Students are apt to encounter many "plotless" stories--those of Chekhov, Kafka, or Merwin, for example--that the phenomenon of the plotless story must be reckoned with by any teacher. Author attempted to describe how to deal both with the plotted story and the poltless one, to make the transition from one to the other and explain the difference…

Author commented on the textbook editions of this extremely ancient narrative about a hero who wanted to conquer death. He remarked on the difficulties in the text, differences between the 1964 and 1972 Sandars versions, similarities to Shelley, various literary strategies, and the persistent problem of translation itself. (Editor/RK)

Describes "impersonal narration," an approach that defends the concept of the cinematic narrator as a logical and pragmatic necessity. Compares this approach with existing theories of the cinematic narrator, addressing disagreements in the field of film narrative theory. (MM)

Offers a personal narrative which focuses on the grief process and links personal, literary, and clinical elements. (SR)

Many students perform extraction experiments without connecting relevant molecular features to corresponding macroscopic features. Two versions of an Organic Extraction Simulation, one with text "captions" and the other with "narration" accompanying the animation, were developed based on a cognitive view of multimedia learning.…

This article compares the Beehive Collective's "Plan Colombia" to a museum exhibition representing the official U.S. position on Plan Colombia. Through a dialectical (Kellner & Share, 2007; Greene, 1988) reading of "Plan Colombia" and "Target America," I examine how each uses visual narrative to promote a…