Citation Verbs

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  1. hi everyone today.
  2. I wanted to talk to you about using citation verbs
  3. in your writing and citation verbs, air used when you're
  4. writing about another author's words, and it's basically giving them
  5. credit for what they are doing in the text.
  6. So let's get started.
  7. Citation verbs identify what the author is doing, what is
  8. happening in the article.
  9. What are you reading about?
  10. In other words, what is the others purpose for writing
  11. the text or that section of the text?
  12. So if they're summarizing than the verb you're gonna use
  13. have to do with summary if they're reading an argument
  14. than the verbs have to do with arguing if they
  15. are entertaining you than the verbs that you'll use to
  16. talk about, What they're doing are verbs that have to
  17. do with entertaining.
  18. So ask yourself, what are some things that an author
  19. can do in their writing?
  20. They can do pretty much anything right.
  21. Like I said, entertained, persuade, inform, um, and a whole
  22. number of other things.
  23. We don't want to use simple words like talks about
  24. Moore says or writes.
  25. Those are two basic.
  26. We want to go up a level in our writing
  27. in our abilities.
  28. So we're skipping those words and we're moving on to
  29. more advanced terms.
  30. How about trying to use words like Explain in this
  31. section, the author explains, Inform or outline.
  32. Take it to the next level, the author argues.
  33. The author persuades the author demonstrates or take it to
  34. the next level.
  35. The author elucidates reiterates, were compounds.
  36. You can look up a great list of all of
  37. these citation verbs on the Internet and feel free to
  38. do that.
  39. But keep in mind that the goal is accuracy, meaning
  40. you're accurately conveying what the author wrote.
  41. Not creativity.
  42. The bigger words aren't always the best words.
  43. We want to be accurate when we're talking about what
  44. someone else has written.