ion • Explanation or documentation of the implementation or abstraction • The analysis of the abstraction or model • The application of the abstraction Design patterns typically include several additional attributes, including characteristic task features, rubrics, and variable task features, attributes designed to help the designer further refine the assessment tasks, including essential featu...

Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...

An interactive narrative is an education, training, or entertainment experience. There are two qualities that make an experience an interactive narrative. To understand those, let us clarify the meanings of interactive and narrative. Interactive: capable of acting on or influencing each other; and Narrative: presentation of events in a purposeful sequence. Thus, the qualities that define an int...

The research reported in this paper employed Narrative Inquiry in an innovative way in a study of the key factors that influence the career paths of information systems (IS) professionals. The interview technique was based upon McCracken’s [1] ‘Long Interview’, which allows the research participants to reflect upon the domain of discourse in a relatively unbiased and freeflowing manner. Individ...

Explanations play an essential role in decision support and recommender systems as they are directly associated with the acceptance of those systems and the choices they make. Although approaches have been proposed to explain automated decisions based on multi-attribute decision models, there is a lack of evidence that they produce the explanations users need. In response, in this paper we prop...

The paper argues that the systematic review of qualitative research is best served by reliance upon qualitative methods themselves. A case is made for strengthening the narrative literature review and using narrative itself as a method of review. A technique is proposed that builds upon recent developments in qualitative systematic review by the use of a narrative inductive method of analysis. ...

history - narrative interaction is one of the most important issues have being discussed in critical philosophy of history. a historian normally compiles the historical events, as the essential parts of history recording, and imports them besides some connectors through a narrative structure.  the existing relation between such a narrative and the reality is of considerable concerns which are e...

this paper is an attempt to examine, with narrative explanation technique, the notion of the “other” in the history of iran’s foreign relations from the perspective of historical sociology in international relations. it covers the historical period following the founding of the safavid state in 1502 a.d. through the first decade of the islamic republic (1989 a.d.).from the perspective of how th...