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. ▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00 Intro 00:41 Definition 02:15 Types of hedging 08:14 Boosting 09:54 Hedging in an authentic text 13:09 Summary ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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 (m