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Fig. 1 Normative means and standard errors of each narrative process, by corpus.
Means and error bars rescaled to illustrate the typical narrative from each genre.
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Fig. 2 Means of each narrative dimension for romance novels (top row) and film dialogue (bottom row), plotted separately by rating group (low, medium, and high).
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Fig. 3 Typical narrative processes across the five traditional story corpora used for RQ1 and RQ2 (novels, short stories, TATs, romance novels, and movie dialogue).
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Fig. 4 Unfolding narrative structure by genre.
Note: Graphs represent the three narrative processes across the five segments for New York Times articles (left), TED talks (center), and Supreme Court opinions (right). Means and error bars rescaled to illustrate the typical narrative from each genre.

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Raw scores 7.4 8.2 5.5 6.0 3.3
Standardized 0.70 1.10 −0.30 −0.04 −1.40

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The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis

Ryan L. Boyd, Kate G. Blackburn, James W. Pennebaker

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The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis

By Ryan L. Boyd, Kate G. Blackburn, James W. Pennebaker

Science Advances07 Aug 2020 : eaba2196

We find a consistent, unified narrative structure that can be reliably quantified using modern text analysis methods.

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The narrative arc: Revealing core narrative structures through text analysis

By Ryan L. Boyd, Kate G. Blackburn, James W. Pennebaker

Science Advances07 Aug 2020 : eaba2196

We find a consistent, unified narrative structure that can be reliably quantified using modern text analysis methods.

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