Editing Scholarly method (section)

{{Short description|Body of principles and practices used by scholars and academics to make their claims}}{{Distinguish|Scholasticism|Scholarism|Scholarship}}
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[[File:Gerbrand van den Eeckhout 003.jpg|thumb|260px|right|''Scholar and His Books'' by [[Gerbrand van den Eeckhout]]]]
The '''scholarly method''' or '''scholarship''' is the body of [[principle]]s and [[Practice theory|practices]] used by [[scholar]]s and [[Academy#Academic personnel|academics]] to make their claims about their subjects of expertise as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public. It comprises the methods that systemically advance the [[teaching]], [[research]], and [[wikt:practice|practice]] of a scholarly or academic field of study through [[Rigour|rigorous]] inquiry. Scholarship is creative, can be documented, can be replicated or elaborated, and can be and is [[peer-reviewed|peer reviewed]] through various methods.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aacn.nche.edu/publications/position/defining-scholarship|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206121442/http://www.aacn.nche.edu/publications/position/defining-scholarship|archive-date=2012-02-06|title=Defining Scholarship for the Discipline of Nursing|website=American Association of Colleges of Nursing|access-date=2012-10-15}}</ref> The scholarly method includes the subcategories of the [[scientific method]], with which scientists bolster their claims, and the [[historical method]], with which historians verify their claims.<ref>{{multiref2
|1={{cite web |title=Historical Methods |url=https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/historical-methods#collapse622386 |website=Faculty of History: University of Oxford |language=en}}
|2={{cite web |last1=Andersen |first1=Hanne |last2=Hepburn |first2=Brian |title=Scientific Method |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/ |website=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |date=2021}} }}</ref>