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
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