Re-Configuring Agnes: The Telling of a Transsexual's Story

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

Telling a story

The genre of storytelling in the form of case studies is an effective way of teaching and learning. Contemporary research on the case method is absent in the academic discipline of communication. This issue needs to be addressed and research on the effectiveness of the case method needs to be done in the academic area of communication. This paper discusses the reasons behind the popularity of t...

Creating a Story-Telling Universe

Extended story generation, such as the creation of soap opera stories, is a difficult and interesting problem for Artif icial Intelligence. We present here the first phase of the development of a program, UNIVERSE, to tell such stories. In particular, we introduce a method for creating universes of characters appropriate for extended story generation. This method concentrates on the need to kee...

Story telling: crafting identities

Career guidance clients are seeking to craft new identities that better position them in their careers. The focus of the present article is on narrative career counselling's potential contribution in providing a meaningful and useful experience for career guidance clients. To illustrate the potential of narrative career counselling, the story telling approach is offered as an example to illustr...

Telling the True Story of Biology

Book Reviews another way to teach science—smaller, less spectacu-Telling the True Story of Biology lar, and until now, less-respected by the marketplace. That other way is to tell stories. I am convinced that all great teachers (and the Ameri-Discovery—Windows on the Life Sciences can scientific community has had its share), are storytell-By R.A. Lewis ers. I would also suggest that the most su...