scholarly method
body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the subject as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public
network analysis
use of graph theory to solve network problems
digital scholarship
use of digital evidence, methods of inquiry, research, publication and preservation to achieve scholarly and research goals
armchair theorizing
practice of analyzing or synthesizing existing scholarship without new primary research
historical method
techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in the form of accounts of the past
scientific method
mathematical and experimental techniques employed in the natural sciences; more specifically, techniques used in the construction and testing of scientific hypotheses
analysis
process of applying analytical methods to existing data of a specific type, breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it