A scientific narrative is written in a story-telling format to address a specific topic. The writer can tell a story using their own personal experiences and include any of their thoughts, feelings, and opinions. This style of writing is very content-dependent (as in personal content) and has less scientific data/research. Writing in this story-telling method, allows the audience to connect with the writing and even compare the situation with their own experiences. Before writing our own scientific narrative, we read an example paper where the author talks about her experience as a bilingual child in the medical field. She talks about how when she was a child, doctors would tell her information and she would have to translate it for her parents since English wasn’t their first language. Even though I and the writer are two different people and have completely different backgrounds, I was able to relate to her situation a lot because it was something I had to do with my grandparents. So, scientific narratives are a great way to share scientific issues with the general public because it’s easier to read than other scientific writing, like scientific journals, and they can be relatable which can make it easier to understand the issue at hand.
