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A co oncordaance-based sttudy off the usse of repo orting verbs v as rheto orical devices in acad demic papers p Joel Blo och The Ohio o State University | USA. Abstract: This research ex xamines the usee of concordanc cing to create materials for teacching about the role of o reporting verb bs in academic papers. The app propriate use off reporting verbss is crucial both in esstablishing the writer's w own claim ms and situating g these claims within w previouslyy published research. The paper usess a sample of aarticles from Sc cience, a leading journal in thee scientific communitty, to create tw wo small corporra. Based on th he frequency ra anking of 27 exxamples of reporting verbs, a sample of 540 senteences was chosen for more careful c For each reporting verb in this sammple, a randomiized sample of sentences was drawn.

BLOCH A REPORTING VERBS AS RHETORICAL DEVICES | 220 1. Introduction The appropriate choice of a reporting verb in the citation of one’s own claims or the claims of others has been increasingly viewed as an important part of establishing the

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