Reading Scientific Texts: Adapting Primary Literature for Promoting Scientific Literacy: Guest Editorial
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Secondary sources have a different intended audience than PSL and are thus usually written in different structures and language than PSL.
“We also did not include approaches that focused on teaching students how to read secondary sources (e.g., newspaper articles, popular science media, and reviews), which have a different intended audience than PSL and are thus usually written in different structures and language than PSL (Yarden, 2009).”
From Reading Primary Scientific Literature: Approaches for Teaching Students in the Undergraduate STEM Classroom (2023) · cites this paper as Yarden, 2009
In “Distinguishing Between Various Scientific Text Genres” (pp. 1–3), Yarden contrasts PSL, written by scientists for scientists in a canonical structure, with journalistic reports and textbooks intended for other audiences and organized differently. The paper does not establish that all the secondary sources listed in the citing sentence—including reviews—have different audiences or language from PSL. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Authors
- Yarden, A.
- Affiliations
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Yarden, Anat
- ORCID
- Yarden, Anat
- Venue
- Research in Science Education
- Published
- 2009-02-19
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 307-311
- ISSN
- 0157-244X (ISSN-L)
- 1573-1898
- OpenAlex
- W1542334189
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 14.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Research in Science Education (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Science Education and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Keywords
- scientific literacy, textbooks, high school science students, reading scientific texts, science communication
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