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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film

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The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.

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Conceptualizing the Writer-Reader Relationship in Business Prose

TL;DR: The authors argue that writers achieve an appropriate writer-reader relationship in business prose not by merely switching from their own to the reader's viewpoint but by artfully interweaving multiple rhetorical and linguistic elements.
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Using narrative-based contextual games to enhance language learning: A case study

TL;DR: A narrative-based design framework that organizes three narrative elements (i.e., storyline, character, and quest) to support a contextual game-based environment for language learning to examine the feasibility and effects on student language learning is described.
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Erzählen. Die ethisch-politische Funktion narrativer Diskurse

Markus Arnold
TL;DR: In this article, a disziplinenubergreifende Wissenschaft des Narrativen, the sogenannte Narratologie, is defined.
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The Use of Narrative to Provide a Cohesive Structure for a Web Based Computing Course

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used narrative in the form of popular accounts to provide context, structure and broad appeal to a large-scale, entry-level university course on Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The First Thing Andrew Did' [John 1:41]: Readers As Witnesses in the Fourth Gospel

Mark L. Trump
TL;DR: In this article, an authorial reading of the Fourth Gospel is proposed, which suggests that the textual intention of the Gospel is to inculcate witness in its readers, and the implied author repeatedly returns to the motif of bearing witness in such a way that by the end of the narrative, the reader has learned to associate faith and discipleship with bearing witness and to understand that witnesses are themselves "signs".