Titik Rahayu, Yuni Astuti, Zakiyah, Bambang Yudi Cahyono
As an important practice for researchers, citing sources is a challenging task for undergraduate students as they deal with the types of citation forms, the variety of reporting verbs and their tenses, and the writer stances through reporting verbs. Therefore, the current research is aimed at investigating the surface forms, reporting verb tenses, and writer stances from the uses of reporting verbs. In total, the data sources included 30 theses written by undergraduate students of the English and Literature Program in one of the Indonesian state universities. The theses were taken randomly from the year of 2020 till 2022 by considering the data availability and accessibility. All sections of the thesis were analyzed by utilizing AntConc. The results indicated that an integral citation was preferable and most reporting verbs were shown in the present tense. In accordance with the reporting verbs, the students tended to endorse a source by using the words “state,” “mention,” and “explain” in the present tense. These results are different from those commonly shown by experts in their in-text citations. This implies that it is necessary to teach or advise undergraduate students to use various reporting verbs, tenses, and writer stances in in-text citation practices. © 2025 Language Institute, Thammasat University. All rights reserved.
Department of English, Faculty of Letters Universitas, Negeri, Malang, Indonesia; Department of Business Administration, Politeknik Negeri Madiun, Indonesia; Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
