Questão 67148 de Língua Inglesa - PERFIL 2025

Questão

ID 67148

Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

Assuntos: Coesão e Coerência | Cohesion And Coherence, Substituição de Palavras e Reescrita de Frases | Word Substitution And Sentence Rewriting

Ano: 2025 Banca: PERFIL - ENADE Órgão: Quarto Simulado Pnd

An advanced EAP (English for Academic Purposes) writing instructor is focusing on the pragmatic-discursive features of persuasive writing. Her students, who are preparing for graduate studies in the humanities, are proficient in grammar but struggle to craft a compelling authorial voice. Their writing tends to be a dry summary of sources, lacking a clear argumentative stance. The instructor decides to focus on a subtle but crucial aspect of academic persuasion: the management of intertextuality, specifically, the choice of reporting verbs (e.g., 'Smith states...', 'Smith argues...', 'Smith claims...', 'Smith suggests...', 'Smith refutes...'). She wants to show them that these verbs are not neutral synonyms, but powerful tools for positioning the cited author and, consequently, themselves. Her theoretical basis is that academic writing is a dialogue. She explains: 'Your choice of a reporting verb is a meta-discursive act. It signals to your reader how you interpret the source author's stance and how you intend to position your own argument in relation to it. Are you presenting the source as a neutral provider of facts ('states'), as a fellow arguer ('argues'), as a tentative speculator ('suggests'), or as an opponent to be challenged ('claims', 'alleges')? This is a key site of authorial voice construction.'

To assess her students' understanding, she gives them a sentence from a source text ('The data indicates a correlation...') and asks them to integrate it into their own paragraph using different reporting verbs. Which of the following student productions demonstrates the most sophisticated control over the pragmatic-discursive function of reporting verbs?

Alternativa A:
The student writes: 'Smith says that the data indicates a correlation.' This choice is grammatically correct, but the verb 'says' is neutral and lacks the academic precision to signal a specific stance.
Alternativa B:
The student writes: 'As Smith compellingly demonstrates, the data indicates a clear correlation. This finding provides strong support for my own thesis that...' Here, the student uses a strong, positive reporting verb ('demonstrates') to align themselves with Smith and build on the source as a solid foundation for their own argument.
Alternativa C:
The student writes: 'Smith claims that the data indicates a correlation. However, his analysis overlooks several key variables, and therefore his conclusion is questionable.' In this case, the student uses a distancing reporting verb ('claims') to signal skepticism and to create a rhetorical space for their own counter-argument.
Alternativa D:
The student writes: 'While Smith merely suggests a possible correlation, his data, when re-examined, actually provides conclusive proof of causation.' Here, the student uses a 'weaker' reporting verb ('suggests') to characterize the source author's stance as overly cautious, in order to highlight the strength and originality of their own, more forceful re-interpretation.
Alternativa E:
All of the options from B, C, and D demonstrate a sophisticated understanding, as each one uses a specific reporting verb to achieve a distinct and complex rhetorical purpose (alignment, opposition, or re-interpretation).

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