ABSTRACT
Research texts need to reflect the narrative quality of the experiences of both participants and researcher and the ways these stories of experiences are embedded within social, cultural, familial, linguistic, and institutional narratives. Holding these conceptual commitments of narrative inquiry mean that the kinds of interim and final research texts we create are difficult ones. Response communities are important spaces within the inquiry, because they help inquirers to recognize how they shape both the experiences of their participants and their research puzzles. The iterative nature of narrative inquiries there is a continuous interplay among field texts, interim research texts, and final research texts. The author has learned a great deal about gaps, silences, and white spaces as she reflects on the kinds of research texts that she and others write. It is amid response communities that narrative inquirers become awakened to methodological and theoretical possibilities, learn about ethical and responsive ways to be in relationships, and learn to listen.
