“Rich representation” in references to primary and secondary material in academic writing

I’ve been talking to students in academic-writing courses about what I call “rich representation”: don’t just refer to primary texts; quote them and analyze the details. And don’t just refer to secondary texts; quote them and frame the quotation with the author’s name to communicate your take on that work. This approach to materials with "rich representation" (which LLM-based text generators cannot do) enriches your texts, as well as your engagement with them. (Unfortunately, a lot of academic writing by humans does not engage much with quotations from primary materials. And many references to secondary literature are just page references or even just names of authors of works in the bibliography.) (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 10 March 2025)