The user's guide project: giving experiential context to research papers
Cary Malkiewich, Mona Merling, David White, Luke Wolcott, Carolyn, Yarnall
TL;DR
This paper introduces the User's Guide project, which creates peer-reviewed summaries and contextual explanations for research papers to make them more accessible and understandable to a broader audience.
Contribution
It presents a novel approach to enhancing research paper accessibility through peer-reviewed User's Guides that provide experiential context and layman summaries.
Findings
First issue of Enchiridion published in 2015
User's Guides explain key insights and metaphors of papers
Guides aim to make research accessible to non-mathematicians
Abstract
This paper was written in 2015, and published in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. This paper announces the first issue (2015) of Enchiridion: Mathematics User's Guides, a project to produce peer-reviewed User's Guides as companions to published papers. These User's Guides are meant to explain the key insights and organizing principles in their companion papers, the metaphors and imagery used by the authors, the story of the development of the companion papers, and a colloquial summary appropriate for a non-mathematical audience. Examples of User's Guides can be found at https://mathusersguides.com/
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