Scholarly method
It comprises the methods that systemically advance the teaching, research, and practice of a scholarly or academic field of study through rigorous inquiry.[2] The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians research primary sources and other evidence, and then write history.The empirical method is not sharply defined and is often contrasted with the precision of experiments, where data emerges from the systematic manipulation of variables.To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning.[3] A scientific method consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.