Thus to summarise, the question here is one of whether the writer indicates support for, acceptance of, or agreement with the views or observations provided by the attributed material. To regularise our treatment somewhat, we can say that writers can either choose to remain neutral with respect to endorsement (neither endorsing or disendorsing) or they can choose to actively take a position (endorsing or disendorsing).
I summarise the set of options for endorsement/disendorsement below. (See Figure 1 below).
Figure 1: Endorsement options
