Guide to Reporting Verbs: Citing Sources in Academic Writing
About this ebook
The book:
- lists prevalent reporting verbs across six disciplines: applied linguistics, biology, history, philosophy, political science, and physics
- provides information on authorial voice for each reporting verb
- highlights effective use of each reporting verb through inclusion of a definition, the lemma along with a few members of the word family, stance act(s), common contextual environments, example sentences from academic sources, the verb’s frequency in academic writing (based on two corpora, or databases), and the verb’s relative frequencies across disciplines
- offers practical tasks and exercises for students as online support material
Organized so that readers can use the guide as either a quick reference or a study aide, this resource will empower students to use appropriate, discipline-specific reporting verbs in their academic writing.
About the author
Grant Eckstein is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Response to Writing and co-author of Curriculum Development for Intensive English Programs (2022).
Jacob D. Rawlins is Associate Professor in the Linguistics department at Brigham Young University, USA. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Business Communication. His books include Language Prescription: Values, Ideologies and Identity (2020).
Elizabeth Hanks is an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of South Florida. She uses corpus methods to address questions related to vocabulary, pragmatics, and register.
