How to Effectively Plan for a Scalar Project

One of the most important aspects of working within Scalar is how to effectively plan and organize your project. Scalar allows you to take a traditional research paper or a critical argument and turn it into a virtual and interactive experience. Within, Scalar it allows authors to create paths that show connections better than paragraph shifts or bullet points in could feasibly do. However, since most of us are used to writing papers in a way that’s organized and modeled after Aristotle’s Classical Rhetoric, creating pathways that can stem from other pathways can be a little difficult to manage or even understand.

Thankfully, Scalar has certain functions to help authors and viewers visualize these pathways more easily. For example, after you create your book you can see all the pathways, relationships, and connections that you’ve made so far. You can view these visualizations in the upper left hand side of your book under Visualizations (see Figure 1). Scalar breaks down all your relationships, tags, and pathways in a readable graph/image that really helps you understand what you’re creating. However, before you can start to grasp Scalar’s functions, it’s important to have your content created/written before you start working; that way, you can map out your connections more efficiently.