Transcript Reporting other author`s ideas

Reporting other author’s ideas
When reporting other author’s ideas,
you use either direct quotations or you
summarise or paraphrase and then
use indirect quotations.
In both cases you need to reference
the source and use reporting verbs to
refer to the other author.
When you use direct quotes, put them
in quotation marks and do not change
any words:
Descartes stated, “I think, therefore I am.”
“I think,” Descartes stated, “therefore I am.”
“I think, therefore I am,” Descartes stated.
When you use indirect quotation,
• Summarise or paraphrase the author’s words;
• do not change the meaning;
• shift the verb tenses if necessary;
• change the structure of sentences,
e.g. from active to passive.
Direct quote:
Descartes stated, “I think, therefore I am.”
Indirect quote:
Descartes states that he thinks, therefore he is.
Descartes stated that he thought, therefore he was.
Direct quote:
Descartes stated, “I think, therefore I am.”
Indirect quote:
Descartes states that using his mind to think proves
that he exists.
Descartes stated that using his mind to think proved
that he existed.
Vary your sentences and use different
reporting verbs:
Descartes stated, “I think, therefore I am.”
Descartes observed, “I think, therefore I am.”
Descartes argued, “I think, therefore I am.”
Descartes claimed, “I think, therefore I am.”
https://learn.gold.ac.uk/course/category.php?id=25
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/writingcentre/learning_guides/
learningGuide_reportingVerbs.pdf
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