Telling Stories: Narrative Approaches in Qualitative Research
Image the Journal of Nursing ScholarshipPublished 1 September 1991
Margarete Sandelowski
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This paper presents narrative as a framework for understanding the subject and interview data in qualitative research and 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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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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