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Usefully, they have developed a model for locating different types of narrative inquiry. They suggest two axes for locating any type of narrative inquiry; holistic/categorical and content/form. The first dimension refers to the way in which the inquiry is ‘sliced’ – do we look at the complete story or examine elements within it? For example, in an examination of a teaching portfolio do we concentrate on the evidence, or the discussion around that evidence, or is the whole something more th