Hedging (cautious language) in Academic Writing
Hedging, also called cautious language or tentative language, is an important part of academic style. This video defines hedging, gives different types of hedging, compares hedging with boosting, and looks at examples of hedging in an authentic academic text.
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00:00 Intro
00:41 Definition
02:15 Types of hedging
08:14 Boosting
09:54 Hedging in an authentic text
13:09 Summary
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Hedging is a way of softening the language by making the claims or conclusions less absolute. It can be achieved by using introductory verbs (e.g. tend to, assume, indicate, estimate, seem to, appear to be), modal verbs (may, can, could), adverbs (probably, possibly, seemingly), adjectives (probable, possible, likely, doubtful), nouns (probability, possibility, likelihood, assumption) and other phrases such as adverbs of frequency, if clauses.
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