@inproceedings{b2b85aa590d04e3eb7ba16dced7dc114,
title = "Design guidelines for adapting scientific research articles: An example from an introductory level, interdisciplinary program on soft matter",
abstract = "We present design guidelines for using Adapted Primary Literature (APL) as part of current interdisciplinary topics to introductory physics students. APL is a text genre that allows students to comprehend a scientific article, while maintaining the core features of the communication among scientists, thus representing an authentic scientific discourse. We describe the adaptation of a research paper by Nobel Laureate Paul Flory on phase equilibrium in polymer-solvent mixtures that was presented to high school students in a project-based unit on soft matter. The adaptation followed two design strategies: A) Making explicit the interplay between the theory and experiment. b) Re-structuring the text to map the theory onto the students' prior knowledge. Specifically, we map the theory of polymer-solvent systems onto a model for binary mixtures of small molecules of equal size that was already studied in class.",
keywords = "APL, NOS.",
author = "Elon Langbeheim and Safran, {Samuel A.} and Edit Yerushalmi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013 American Institute of Physics.; 2012 Physics Education Research Conference, PERC 2012 ; Conference date: 01-08-2012 Through 02-08-2012",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4789642",
language = "American English",
series = "AIP Conference Proceedings",
pages = "23--26",
editor = "Rebello, {N. Sanjay} and Engelhardt, {Paula V.} and Churukian, {Alice D.}",
booktitle = "2012 Physics Education Research Conference",
}