Guide to Reporting Verbs

Guide to Reporting Verbs is an accessible guide to citing sources in academic writing across the disciplines. This reference guide lists the most common reporting verbs across various disciplines in the hard and soft sciences and provides important information about how they can be used in academic writing.

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.

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction to Reporting Verbs Methods Instructions for Using this Guide Frequent Reporting Verbs Complete List of Reporting Verbs