#Research for Semi-Scholarly Articles

##General

Semi-scholarly article writing is distinguished from more academic writing, by the amount of time spent on research, time spent perfecting the article, and the lack of preparation for submission to a particular academic journal. The goal is scholarly but creative self-publication. There is need to adopt any particular form, or meet any specific external requirement. It is an aesthetic but intellectual production, with no judge other than the author.

###Timeline * Phase I might take a few days of focused writing. * Phase II and III collection might take a day. Ingestion and digestion might take a week- however the goal is to identify value and quickly cast aside anything that won’t help the paper. * Phase IV might take a couple days to a week. This will likely consist of quickly rewriting, then polishing. * Phase V is simply the self-publication phase.

Using this approach, you should be able to produce an article no less than once per month.

##Phase I. Writing, Brainstorming, Idea formation, Exhaustive Reductionism.

##Phase II. Collection, and Incubation. Find Key Theories, Build a Tree of Knowledge, Reflect.

##Phase III. Journal research.

##Phase IV. Rewriting.

##Phase V. Editing and Publication.