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Reporting verbs and message

Reporting verbs and message:

Reporting verbs and message



Acknowledge

Ask

Confirm

Determine

Express

Infer

Reject

Add

Assert

Contend

Discuss

Formulate

List

Reveal

Admit

Assume

Convey

Doubt

Identify

Maintain

Show

Advise

Caution

Declare

Endorse

Illustrate

Postulate

State

Advocate

Concede

Define

Establish

Imply

Propose

Stress

Agree

Concentrate

Deny

Examine

Include

Presume

Suggest

Argue

Condone

Describe

Explore

Indicate

Refute

Survey



Examples
of reporting verbs

The
message

Say,
write, document, report, study


Giving
factual information

View,
believe, think, regard, consider, reflect


What
the author thought

Categorise,
assess, examine, use, compare, contrast, focus on, explain
Emphasise,
invoke, note, point out, reason, posit, hypothesise, remark, detail


The
procedure/ How the author did it

Find,
observe, obtain, associate, conclude, recommend


What
the author found

Challenge,
dismiss, dispute, diverge from, object to, oppose,


Considers
the cited author’s position

Demonstrate,
identify, improve, recognize, substantiate, highlight, confirm, prove


Your
evaluation of the work

confuse,
disregard, ignore, misuse, neglect, misinterpret, generalize, insist


Your
negative evaluation of the work
Adapted from
Chen (2001, p. 81) ‘Ways of knowing, ways of citing: a study of Chinese
graduate students’ citation behaviour in thesis writing’





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