ABSTRACT
This chapter is added to this new edition for two reasons – first because much work is being done in the area of story (or ‘narrative’) in education, professional activity and professional development that relates to and sometimes overlaps with that of the journal-writing process. Since we may choose to treat the journal as a collection of stories told usually from the first person, we can link the process of journalwriting in to the wider and sometimes different literature of the uses of story. Rich examples of the literature of story in particular disciplines are Greenhalgh (1998) – medicine, McDrury and Alterio (2003) – professional education in health, Kenyon et al. (2001) – gerontology.
