English academic writing: Proposal of a bank of useful phrases for hedging
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2021
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Orozco Gutiérrez, Lázara de la Caridad
Sánchez Pérez, Alma Laura
Morales Triana, Marilín
Rodríguez Ruiz, Mayra
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Academic writing has its own rules and practices which may be organized in accordance with
a specific arrangement in order to present ideas and to assure to support them by author
citations. Professional academic writing consists of a series of factual statements which are
added to the truth, mainly in the hard sciences. However, it is now widely recognized that any
written text involves an interaction between writer and reader. In this interaction readers
anticipate the lines of thought of writers, interrogate them, and evaluate the piece of writing
for its usefulness and importance to their own research). Most research papers require careful
attention to some specific features of academic writing; namely, complexity, formality,
precision, objectivity, explicitness, accuracy, responsibility, planning, and hedging. Precisely,
hedging devices are among essential elements of academic writing for supporting or rejecting
hypotheses or theories. Therefore, the aim of this research paper is to propose a bank of
useful phrases for hedging in English academic writing for students of the degree course
English Language with A Second Foreign Language (French) at Universidad Central "Marta
Abreu" de Las Villas. To this end, a 30 theses/dissertations corpus taken from the websites of
Brigham Young University, Portland State University and The University of Edinburgh was
compiled and manually processed to assure whether a word functions as a hedge or not. The
bank will help improve students’ proficiency when writing research papers, term papers and
diploma papers throughout their study years and future professional careers.
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Academic Writing, Corpus, Corpus Linguistics, Hedging, Hedging Devices, Hedging Taxonomies