Postgraduate students’ use of reporting verbs in literature review writings
Academic writing is intrinsically a persuasive discourse and for the argument to be well received by the discourse community, citation is mandatory. A successful integral citation requires writers to use appropriate reporting verbs in their writing texts which is different from non-integral ci...
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my-ukm.journal.229682024-02-06T03:52:49Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22968/ Postgraduate students’ use of reporting verbs in literature review writings Geok, Imm Lee Helen Tan, Academic writing is intrinsically a persuasive discourse and for the argument to be well received by the discourse community, citation is mandatory. A successful integral citation requires writers to use appropriate reporting verbs in their writing texts which is different from non-integral citation. However, past studies have shown that novice writers had difficulties using reporting verbs in integral citations. Therefore, this action research sought to investigate the frequencies and forms of reporting verbs used by novice postgraduate students in their literature review writings. Using convenience sampling and Hyland’s (2002) Categories of Reporting Verbs, a total of 32 literature review writings of non-native novice postgraduate students were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings illustrated that although the students used all the three categories of reporting verbs, Research Acts reporting verbs were more dominantly used, followed by Discourse Acts reporting verbs. The least used was Cognition Acts reporting verbs. As for the forms used, the most common forms under Research Acts were found and conducted while stated, concluded and suggested were the most dominant forms under Discourse Acts. As for Cognition Acts, believed and agreed were the key forms. To conclude, the study demonstrated the need to raise the novice writers’ awareness on the three different categories of reporting verbs that could be used in integral citations for a more effective academic writing. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2023-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/22968/1/Gema_23_4_13.pdf Geok, Imm Lee and Helen Tan, (2023) Postgraduate students’ use of reporting verbs in literature review writings. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 23 (4). pp. 207-222. ISSN 1675-8021 https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1621 |
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Academic writing is intrinsically a persuasive discourse and for the argument to be well received
by the discourse community, citation is mandatory. A successful integral citation requires writers
to use appropriate reporting verbs in their writing texts which is different from non-integral
citation. However, past studies have shown that novice writers had difficulties using reporting
verbs in integral citations. Therefore, this action research sought to investigate the frequencies and
forms of reporting verbs used by novice postgraduate students in their literature review writings.
Using convenience sampling and Hyland’s (2002) Categories of Reporting Verbs, a total of 32
literature review writings of non-native novice postgraduate students were analysed quantitatively
and qualitatively. The findings illustrated that although the students used all the three categories
of reporting verbs, Research Acts reporting verbs were more dominantly used, followed by
Discourse Acts reporting verbs. The least used was Cognition Acts reporting verbs. As for the
forms used, the most common forms under Research Acts were found and conducted while stated,
concluded and suggested were the most dominant forms under Discourse Acts. As for Cognition
Acts, believed and agreed were the key forms. To conclude, the study demonstrated the need to
raise the novice writers’ awareness on the three different categories of reporting verbs that could
be used in integral citations for a more effective academic writing. |
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