Some Valuable Techniques for Storytelling
- Dialogue: to capture voice, to capture sound, to capture setting
- Description: to give a feel for the place
- References: in text, in footnotes, bracketed off to bring in other voices
- Narrator positionality: first person, third person
- Shifts in time
- Inner monologues
- Labeling/resisting labeling
- Framing: offering multiple interpretations of events
- Truth telling: saying something is true/saying something is a lie
- Interpretation/lack of interpretation
- Coming full circle
- Chronological vs. jumping around
- Starting “in the midst” where we don’t know what is happening
Sample Stories
Collaborative Stories
- Sample Story: Moghabghab, Emma, & Marwa Mehio, Marwa. 2021. School Stories.
- Sample Story: Ka Lon (Alan) Chan (2021). Trilogy: Rian.Gauge – From High-School T/S to Lifelong Friends and Learning Partners
- Collaborative Autoethnography (CAE)
- Chang, H., Ngunjiri, F., & Hernandez, K-.A. C. (2013). Collaborative autoethnography. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315432137
Collage Literacy
- Sample Story: Young, RAsheda. 2021. We Lit.
Visual Stories
- Sample Story: Tavers, Trisha. 2021. The Battles After Battle