NARRATIVE-BASED MEDICAL WRITING: AN EMP CASE STUDY

Narrative medicine and narrative writing.

The power of reflective writing: narrative medicine and medical education.

There is no doubt that medicine is an art and a science. Today, practicing medicine as science is probably much easier than practicing medicine as art, in light of the dazzling advances in medical technology and informatics. Even before technology gained the upper hand, patients were healed by physicians when most of the remedies were useless if not harmful, and when remedies were driven by the...

Narrative based medicine: narrative in medical ethics.

References The contributions of narrative to medical ethics come primarily in two ways: firstly, from the use of stories (narratives) for their mimetic content—that is, for what they say; and secondly, from the methods of literary criticism and narrative theory for their analysis of diegetic form—that is, for their understanding of how stories are told and why it matters. Although narrative and...

Writing Narrative Literature Reviews

Narrative literature reviews serve a vital scientific function, but few resources help people learn to write them. As compared with empirical reports, literature reviews can tackle broader and more abstract questions, can engage in more post hoc theorizing without the danger of capitalizing on chance, can make a stronger case for a null-hypothesis conclusion, and can appreciate and use methodol...

The Impact of Blogging and Scaffolding on Primary School Pupils' Narrative Writing: A Case Study

Narrative writing is a skill that all primary (elementary) school pupils in Singapore are required to develop in their learning of the English language. However, this is an area in which not all pupils excel. This study investigates if the use of blogging and scaffolding can improve pupils’ narrative writing. Data were gathered from 36 primary five (grade five) pupils through pre-post writing t...