Scholarly process

“An outcome is what eventually emerges from the scholarly process.”

Scholarly process means the sequence through which knowledge is:

chosen and researched and written and evaluated and published and circulated and cited and taught and recognized.

For example:

Step 1 — Question

A historian decides:

“I want to study colonial taxation.”

Step 2 — Research

They examine:

archives;

government documents;

letters;

newspapers;

previous scholarship.

Step 3 — Writing

They formulate an argument.

Step 4 — Evaluation

They submit the paper to a journal.

Reviewers evaluate it.

Step 5 — Publication

If accepted, it becomes part of the scholarly literature.

Step 6 — Citation

Other historians may cite it.

Step 7 — Teaching

Eventually the interpretation may enter textbooks or university courses.

That whole chain is part of the scholarly process.