English for Academic Purposes Writers’ Use of Reporting Verbs in Argumentative and Cause-and-Effect Essay Exams

The Use of Reporting Verbs in Arabic-English Social Science Articles: A Contrastive Corpus-based Analysis

“…1 Reporting verbs (such as ''assert'', ''assert'', ''infer'', ''imply'', and ''argue'') play a crucial role in substantiating an author's arguments in academic texts by citing other sources and reflecting the author's perspective (Hunston and Thompson, 2000;Swales, 1990;Thienthong, 2018;Uludag, Crawford, and McDonough 2021). To establish their credibility, writers choose verbs in their citations that reveal their attitude toward the information they cite.…”

“…Therefore, it is common for experienced writers to use various reporting verbs to establish arguments and convey their perspectives (Hyland, 2002;Kwon, Staples, and Partridge, 2018;Liardét and Black, 2019;Wette, 2018;Yiyun and Thompson, 1991). For authors working in a second language, it can be difficult to integrate information from different sources if they do not fully understand the semantic and functional differences between reporting verbs (see Chen, Xuan, and Yu, 2022;Uludag et al, 2021). Thompson and Tribble (2001) found that experienced and novice writers used different reporting verbs depending on the discipline.…”

“…According to Bloch (2010), students tend to employ the same set of reporting verbs repeatedly. Despite the effects of a particular reporting verb on a student's writing, they continue to utilize the same verbs (see Uludag et al, 2021). Multiple reporting verbs can provide depth and variety to a writer's work (Tian, Mu, and Yang, 2018).…”