ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the co-composition of interim research texts with children and youth. It remains important in these processes of co-composing interim research texts that people attend to who participants are and who narrative inquirers are and are becoming in the living out of narrative inquiries. Co-composing and negotiating interim research texts returns narrative inquirers to the research puzzles and to the personal, practical, and social/theoretical justifications around which the inquiry was initially threaded, puzzles and justifications that have also often shifted, grown, and become more complex through the living of the narrative inquiry. Sonia negotiated a similar process with Tiny Tim in relation with Tiny Tim's Story. As Sonia began to work with the field texts co-composed with Matson and Tiny Tim, she also worked with the transcripts of tape-recorded conversations with their mothers and teachers. Sonia shows us the importance of being wakeful to co-composing interim research texts that are appropriate for negotiating with young children.
