A Rhetorical Tool and a Link to Composition: The Appeals of Narrative in Professional Writing Pedagogy
http://businesscommunication.org/conventions/Proceedings/2007/Washington/13ABC07.pdf

Remley, Dirk
Association for Business Communication
2008

Abstract:

Narrative is a valuable genre to use in composition classes to help students understand their own identity, develop writing skills, including understanding how to structure and use personal experience with a rhetorical purpose in an essay or argument. Once they get to upper division writing courses, however, students are exposed to writing that places less emphasis on that personalized, subjective genre and moves toward the impersonal. Such writing limits the use of narrative, which is generally perceived as highly personal and subjective because it generally conveys only the narrator’s perspective. Narrative includes precise details of an event that occurred in the past which are reported in the same order in which they occurred, as well as an observation or evaluation of the information by the narrator.