This entry was created in response to a student writing:
As Chinnery (2006) claims that website applications should be tools for learning rather than tutors.
There’s something wrong with the bolded construction. The two reusables links below can help students see this. The first one is https://ske.li/wwzand it looks like this:
It may be helpful to compare the link above with this one – https://ske.li/as_x_reports – which shows how as is used in reporting sources:
It might be useful for students to know which verbs are most associated with this phrase. This can be seen via a collocation list of words following as X (year), which can be found here https://ske.li/asxsayscolls and which looks a bit like this: