University:
Boston University
Course:
CAS WR 318 | Public Speaking
Academic year:

2023
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353

Pages:

1
Author:

yack2mucharrh

Templates and Verbs for Introducing Summaries and Quotations Verbs for making a claim: Argue, assert, believe, claim, emphasize, insist, observe, remind us, report, suggest Verbs for expressing agreement: Acknowledge, admire, agree, endorse, extol, praise, celebrate the fact that, corroborate, do not deny, reaffirm, support, verify Verbs for questioning or disagreeing: Complain, complicate, contend, contradict, deny, deplore the tendency to, qualify, question, refute, reject, renounce, repudiate Verbs for making recommendations: Advocate, call for, demand, encourage, exhort, implore, plead, recommend, urge, warn Templates for Introducing Quotations: X states, “________.” As the prominent scientist X puts it, “________.” According to X, “________.” X herself writes, “________.” In her book, Ciao, Michelangelo, X maintains that “________.” Writing in the journal Arts Now, X complains that “________.” In X’s view, “________.” X agrees/disagrees when she writes, “________.” X complicates matters further when she writes, “________.” Templates for Explaining Quotations: Basically, X is warning that …. In other words, X believes that …. In making this comment, X urges us to …. X is corroborating the age-old adage that …. X’s point is that …. The essence of X’s argument is that ….