Automated story generation has a long history of pursuit in artificial intelligence. Early approaches used hand-authored formal models of a particular story-world domain to generate narratives pertaining to that domain (Klein, Aeschlimann, and Balsiger 1973; Lebowitz 1985; Meehan 1977). With the advent of machine learning, more recent work has explored how to construct narrative models automati...

This article analyses findings from the Economic and Social Research Council/Arts Humanities Council (ESRC/AHRC)-funded ‘Distant Voices – Coming Home’ project (ES/POO2536/1), which uses creative methods to explore crime, punishment reintegration. Focusing on songs co-written in Scottish prisons, we argue that serve complicate substantiate our grasp of what state does people, as well perhaps aff...

Considering the benefits of preparation for writing in the pre-writing phase, this study attempted to examine the effects of different pre-task strategic planning activities (i.e., pre-task form-focus planning, content-focus planning, and no planning) on writing accuracy and motivation. To achieve the objectives of this study, sixty intermediate EFL learners were selected from an English langua...

This quasi-experimental study investigated the instructional efficacy of genre-based approach on Iranian EFL learners’motivation for writing. Out of 180 participants, 60 EFL male and female students at university level, with the age range of 19-28, based on a standard profeciency test, Preliminary English Test (PET), were selected and randomly assigned into control and experimental groups. Each...

The past two decades have witnessed a great flowering in writing about narrative and the effort by a wide variety of scholars to incorporate it into their disciplines. The study of narrative in fiction has, of course, long been central to literary theory. More recently, however, narrative study has moved out of English Departments to take on new prominence in psychology, philosophy, semiotics, ...