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The Moral Of The Story: The Power Of Narrative To Inspire And Sustain Scholarship, Amy Vorenberg
The Moral Of The Story: The Power Of Narrative To Inspire And Sustain Scholarship, Amy Vorenberg
Amy Vorenberg
Abstract The Moral of the Story: The Power of Narrative to Inspire and Sustain Scholarship Professor Amy Vorenberg This essay describes the power of story as a tool to inspire scholarship. We think of stories as a means to bring life to legal cases in a way that grounds them and makes them visceral and comprehensible. We use storytelling to teach our students – showing how the emotive power of a story can persuade. However, stories can also serve a different function. In my search for a way to inspire my own writing, I discovered that a good story could …