Pull quote: “I talk about cropping photographs, and how the images gesture toward vast amounts of information that are left out of the frame, but that viewers can easily imagine. Similarly, papers gesture towards whole swaths of the literature that they don’t deal with directly. And that isn’t a sign of weakness — of not managing to fit everything in. Rather it’s a sign of careful decision making, of thinking ‘what do my readers most need to focus on and what can they fill in for themselves’ and ‘what do I most want them to see that they may not have seen in this way before.’”
