Guide to Reporting Verbs

Citing Sources in Academic Writing

Grant Eckstein, Jacob D. Rawlins, Elizabeth Hanks

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Routledge
08 August 2025

Language: history & general works; Grammar, syntax; ELT: teaching theory & methods; ELT: English for technical & scientific purposes

Guide to Reporting Verbs is an accessible guide to citing sources in academic writing across the disciplines. The way writers introduce previous literature is essential to authorial voice. Specifically, the effective use of reporting verbs can highlight important details about the cited work while allowing writers to present themselves as experts in their field. 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.

The book:

• lists the most 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.

By: Grant Eckstein, Jacob D. Rawlins, Elizabeth Hanks
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
ISBN: 9781032686332
ISBN 10: 1032686332
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 08 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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 a PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University, USA.