As forensic psychiatry has matured into a well-recognized subspecialty, considerable agreement about the format and content of reports has emerged. Griffith et al. now turn their attention to the art of forensic writing. Their description of the forensic report as "performative narrative" may help to refine professional practice so long as the ethics-related pitfalls are identified and avoided.

The current paper aims to introduce the ‘Reading to Learn, Learning to Write” (R2L) pedagogy [11] and its application in teaching Chinese narrative writing to non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students in Hong Kong. Based on the needs of the NCS students in Chinese language learning for education and employment in Hong Kong, R2L pedagogy functions as an effective toolkit for L1 Chinese teachers to tea...

A bottleneck in interactive storytelling is the authorial burden of writing narrative units, and connecting them to the interactive narrative structure. To address this problem, we present a hybrid approach that combines AI planning and evolutionary optimization in order to generated new plan operators representing possible story actions, within the framework of a planningbased interactive narr...

Interdisciplinary component of the Mathematics course taught in the Arts and Science Programme at McMaster University is implemented in several ways, varying in depth, width and level of involvement of other courses. Of a number of issues related to the course, this paper uses instructors' experience and examples of students' writing to discuss the features of the narrative in mathematics. Used...

The "curative potential" in almost any clinical setting depends on a caregiver establishing and maintaining an empathic connection with patients so as to achieve "narrative competence" in discerning and acting in accord with their preferences and best interests. The "narrative medicine" model of shared "close reading of literature and reflective writing" among clinicians as a means of fostering...

quintet novel “cities of salt” is considered as a turning point in arabic story-writing literature. in this novel under the influence by story- writing modern stream, munif (1933-2004) has tried to create neology and innovation in some story artistic elements by being committed to some of arab story- writing principles. he tries in this novel to follow russian structuralists, particularly mikha...