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Linguistic devices to respectively display uncertainty, doubt for author’s claims, and reduce commitment with ‘softened’ words thus respecting author’s ideas. Allow a writer to show their opinion/interpretation of a topic, or how strong a writer feels for the stated claim.
One significant way in which the author’s degree of confidence can be expressed in academic writing is through the use of hedges and boosters (Hyland, 1994, 2000).
Boosters like clearly, obviously and of course allow writers to express conviction and to mark their involvement and solidarity with an audience (Myers, 1989; Hyland, 1998a and b).
24 Φεβ 2019 · "Boosting" refers to an adverbial construction used to support a claim or express a viewpoint more assertively and convincingly.
The following is a chart that supplies the standard DOs and DON'Ts of academic writing at university. Some of these points may vary depending on the writing style and the departmental guidelines. Always check for style guides before starting the writing process to ensure that there are no additional style requirements or variations in preference.
The language used in English texts should be understandable to speakers of Irish/British English (defined in the introduction to this guide as the shared standard usage of Ireland and the United Kingdom).
Elements of Writing Style . by David Brundage (Adapted with permission from the Athabasca University English 255 Student Guide.) According to distinguished literary scholar M.H. Abrams, style is traditionally defined as “the manner of linguistic expression in prose or verse—it is how speakers or writers say whatever it is that they say.” 1
