In academic writing, crediting is disciplined through indicating the statement
in the researcher's citation. This research aims to analyze the use of reporting verbs
and categories in writing thesis proposal. This research uses content analysis
method. The data were collected from 63 students who conducted thesis proposal
from January to April 2022 in the English Department at the Islamic State
University of Antasari Banjarmasin through documentation of chapter I to chapter
III of thesis proposals. This data analysis uses the procedure of Miles and Huberman
(1994) and Neuendorf (2017) which consists of 4 components; preparing the data,
determining the data, selecting the data, and reading thesis proposals
comprehensively. Then continued with data analysis techniques using Cohen's
(2007) procedure which consists of 5 components: define the research questions to
be addressed by the content analysis, define the sample to be included, define the
units of analysis, construct the categories for analysis, and summarizing. The
findings of this study showed that the use of reporting verbs had no significant
difference due to there is no description of the objectives and classifications in the
reporting verbs learning module. The different perceptions of each gender were
influenced by emotion factor.