Telling stories: narrative approaches in qualitative research.
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There is a new attention across disciplines to narrative knowing--the impulse to story life events into order and meaning. In this paper, narrative is presented as a framework for understanding the subject and interview data in qualitative research. Examples of narrative approaches are offered, narrative analyses are contrasted with other kinds of qualitative analyses, and truth in narratives is considered.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Image--the journal of nursing scholarship
دوره 23 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1991