“…402-405). Science textbooks, however, have been heavily criticized for focusing too much on consensual and well-established science, lacking argumentation, and presenting an individualistic image of science where individual scientists discover "truth" through experiment (Bauer, 1994;Knain, 2001;Penney, Norris, Phillips, & Clark, 2003). In addition, science texts also present students with specialized linguistic and multimodal demands that are difficult for those who are not familiar with scientific language and representation (Fang, 2006;Kress, Jewitt, Ogborn, & Tsatsarelis, 2001).…”