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I wonder if there is a relationship between narrative voice, narrative mode (first-, second-, and third-person), and the ways in which our conscious storyteller constructs a story. If we think about narrative mode as an integral part of (and perhaps even an integral difference between) academic and “pleasurable” writing, what does that mean for how the brain narrates and “writes?” Are we the writer or the reader or both or neither?

And when it comes down to the classroom, what does that mean for the teacher and the student? As we construct stories, are there better narrative modes and relationships for telling certain content than others?