As writers today, it seems like hard work to find any reliable source of information for our academic texts. The rising innovation in the way we search information has absolutely changed, and AI is getting much of the leading role in this field.
Nevertheless, no matter how much these tools and applications act closer to human behaviour, they will never be able to reason and support ideas such as us, so this is an important advantage.
Now, the way of looking for information is totally up to us, and how relevant or accredited we want our text to be, and also by showing our capacity to support our ideas, based on other (hopefully professional) thoughts and opinions.
Some tips I do apply for fitting these quotations and outlooks in my academic texts, is making clear inferences, where my own work and explanations are separated from the professional ones.
I like to apply the sandwich strategy: Making my own introduction (following the conductor wire of the text) to the inference I am going to play after; next, I put the inference in the text (as direct quotation or paraphrasing), including author’s name, source, and publishing date; and finally explain it (the quotations have to be always explained).