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Sure, you can certainly do research outside of academia. But, for all practical purposes, you cannot publish at a reputable journal without an academic or R&D center affiliation. However, what you call "nitty gritty of writing essays" is there for a reason: to streamline the communication and acknowledge the contributions of others. As long as you are not inventing something unseen before, you just cannot "do researc…
I'd recommend doing a PhD. Not everything in any science can be learnt from books. There is a lot of learning by doing. After that and a bit of experience, you don't necessarily need to be employed in academia. The obvious question is, how will you make money from doing research? If you are just doing it as a hobby, that's fine, but advancing the forefront of human knowledge is hard, intensive work and usually requir…
Sure, you can certainly do research outside of academia. But, for all practical purposes, you cannot publish at a reputable journal without an academic or R&D center affiliation. However, what you call "nitty gritty of writing essays" is there for a reason: to streamline the communication and acknowledge the contributions of others. As long as you are not inventing something unseen before, you just cannot "do researc…
Some ideas:
Try to collaborate with a research group, so they handle all the nasty details like writing the introduction of the paper and fighting with the referees.
Just publish in a blog. Is this research https://paulgraham.com/spam.html ?
Contribute to an open source project that use the topic you are interested.
> I'm skimming through some ideas that I think could make a good paper or article
There are two problems:
1) Ensure that it has not been discovered before.
2) Ensure that it's ""interesting"" for researchers.
Where I use quadruple quotes because some topics that are interesting are ignored by the research community, and some boring topics get hot.
As an additional recommendation, try to avoid predatory journals that just publish whatever you want to publish if you pay them the fee. Nobody read them. Nobody cares about them.
I'd recommend doing a PhD. Not everything in any science can be learnt from books. There is a lot of learning by doing. After that and a bit of experience, you don't necessarily need to be employed in academia. The obvious question is, how will you make money from doing research? If you are just doing it as a hobby, that's fine, but advancing the forefront of human knowledge is hard, intensive work and usually requir…
In my Masters degree I learned how to do proper academic research, literature reviews, paper writing, building up your body of knowledge from textbooks as the starting point to papers published in the past, to papers just being published now, and by that point you're at the cutting edge.
By the time you finish a masters or PhD you should more or less know which academics around the world are working on your niche area and what they are publishing, and read all of their stuff.
By the end of my masters I knew the ~10 people in the world who cared about my topic and had read all of their most recent papers.
Sure, you can certainly do research outside of academia. But, for all practical purposes, you cannot publish at a reputable journal without an academic or R&D center affiliation. However, what you call "nitty gritty of writing essays" is there for a reason: to streamline the communication and acknowledge the contributions of others. As long as you are not inventing something unseen before, you just cannot "do researc…
Who gives a damn about publishing in journals? With the internet anybody can publish anywhere. And if it's the truth then it's the truth. Anybody can seek and find the truth.
Anyone can do research. It is much harder to do research that other researchers will read and take an interest in.
"The strict formats, all the requirements before you can publish, the references you have to use, the nitty-gritty of writing essays, and the conditions that seem to be part of the status quo and hidden secrets between universities": If you want to write a paper which others will read, then you have to learn what topics others are interested in reading about, what other work has been done in the field, and how to write up your results so others will find them interesting. You would learn all of this (and much more!) in a good PhD program.
But if you don't care about recognition? Then all doors are open to you. Just do it! I'm quite serious. Never mind what others have done; maybe you're duplicating something that someone else did seventy years ago, but if you're not gunning for an academic job do you really care? You'll need to accept that no one might ever take a serious interest in what you've done, but the joy of discovery and problem-solving is available to you, as it is to everyone.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who gives a damn about publishing in journals? With the internet anybody can publish anywhere. And if it's the truth then it's the truth. Anybody can seek and find the truth.
seek, yes. find, is a hard problem
Academic knowledge is but a tiny fraction of the knowledge that is discovered every day. Most of it is far from the public eye, being discovered and applied in all different kind of workplaces all over the world. Maybe that knowledge is not "fancy" enough for the academically minded, but it is the knowledge that propels the world forward.
Sure, you can certainly do research outside of academia. But, for all practical purposes, you cannot publish at a reputable journal without an academic or R&D center affiliation. However, what you call "nitty gritty of writing essays" is there for a reason: to streamline the communication and acknowledge the contributions of others. As long as you are not inventing something unseen before, you just cannot "do researc…
However, I've also seen independent researchers (Smith Research, Doe Consulting) and undergraduates publish and present work at technical conferences and workshops. There is usually no requirement for an academic or large company affiliation, or a graduate degree.
What is required, as you indicate, is a carefully written academic paper that presents a clearly identified (and "novel") contribution to the field, clear explanation with convincing evaluation, and adequate review of, comparison with, and citation of prior work, in the preferred writing and publication style.
If you're not used to this kind of writing, you might want to see if you can get help from someone who is.
Sure, you can certainly do research outside of academia. But, for all practical purposes, you cannot publish at a reputable journal without an academic or R&D center affiliation. However, what you call "nitty gritty of writing essays" is there for a reason: to streamline the communication and acknowledge the contributions of others. As long as you are not inventing something unseen before, you just cannot "do researc…
Who gives a damn about publishing in journals? With the internet anybody can publish anywhere. And if it's the truth then it's the truth. Anybody can seek and find the truth.