--- aliases: date-created: [2022-01-11 at 08:30] status: 🌱 tags: research-note --- %% [[Hypertext]] [[Writing Philosophy]] %% [[Writing Philosophy with Hypertext]] - [[Linking Your Thinking]] - [[Interlinked Modular Writing]] - **[[Writing Academically with Links]]** - [[Hypertext Philosophy]] - [[Conclusion - Writing Philosophy with Hypertext]] # Writing Academically with Links - Using notetaking software to write interlinked modular notes may benefit philosophers in a number of ways: - By manually following links or relying on automatic suggestions, philosophers can discover connections between ideas that are not readily apparent from within individual or even small collections of notes. - Organizing interlinked modular notes involves clarifying the concepts contained in the notes, and therefore constitutes philosophical knowledge production proper. Interlinked modular writing is a way of doing philosophy, not merely of recording philosophical thoughts. - In both of the preceding cases, a notetaking system becomes more effective as it grows insofar as the number of connections and thus likelihood of discovering a meaningful connection rises. - This is subject, however, to complexity problems that must be managed effectively by the writer and the notetaking software. Here, [[Notetaking Software (PKMs)|digital notetaking software]] has a strong advantage over [[Zettelkasten|analogue notetaking systems]]. - The ideal is the most complex (size and density) collection of interlinked notes that can still be easily navigated and used by a writer. - Writings composed from modular notes can be easily refactored so as to modify them for various professional venues. Modules may be removed or expanded upon in order to shorten or lengthen the composition. - Authorial referencing is an important part of philosophical writing and the various data basing functions of notetaking software enables the creation of modular reference notes including quotations, citations, bibliographies, and the like that can be linked to wherever appropriate. - When combined with bibliographic software like Zotero, these programs can automate a lot of academic busywork, freeing up time for contentful writing. ## References - Garner 2010, Personal Knowledge Management and Student Learning - Hartberg 2021, "One Brain is Never Enough - Personal Knowledge Management for Academics" - Hosseingholizadeh et al 2018, "PKM Tools for Developing Personal Knowledge Management Skills among University Students" - Hsiao & Huang 2019, "Strategies to Support Personal Knowledge Management Using A Wiki Site in Online Courses" - Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast Episode 9: Academic Personal Knowledge Management. [Link](https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/academic_personal_knowledge_management_workflow/)