Hedging practices in soft science research articles: A corpus-based analysis of Indonesian authors

Adrian, Diaz; Fajri, Muchamad Sholakhuddin Al

doi:10.1080/23311983.2023.2249630

Cogent Arts & Humanities

2023

DOI: 10.1080/23311983.2023.2249630

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Hedging practices in soft science research articles: A corpus-based analysis of Indonesian authors

Diaz Adrian,

Muchamad Sholakhuddin Al Fajri

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Postgraduate EFL Students’ Use of Hedging Strategies in Academic Writing

Tran,

2024

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In academic writing, hedging strategies help writers state uncertain scientific claims accurately, avoid personal responsibility and build better writer-reader relationships by addressing the need for deference and cooperation in gaining reader ratification. In Vietnam, little research investigates the hedging strategies employed by postgraduate students in academic writing. Therefore, the present study aims to investigate Vietnamese postgraduate students' use of hedging strategies in academic writing. The data were extracted from 30 written assignments in an academic writing course within a Master's program. The hedging strategies were analyzed and compared based on frequency, distribution, variety, and contextual use, employing Hyland's definition and taxonomy of hedging strategies. The findings revealed that postgraduate EFL students rely heavily on modal verbs, while nouns are the least favored. The findings suggest a need for further instructions and practice assignments on the use of hedging strategies in academic writing.

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Postgraduate EFL Students’ Use of Hedging Strategies in Academic Writing

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2024

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A diachronic corpus-based study of hedging in L2 postgraduate theses in civil engineering

Kyei,

Afreh,

Kwarteng

2024

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Hedging devices abound in academic writing. Few studies, however, have examined how hedges have evolved in academic writing in an ESL context over time. Among the existing studies, contradictory findings exist. The present study was motivated by the contradictory findings and used a corpus of 28762 words culled from postgraduate theses written by L2 Civil Engineering students between 1980 and 2023 to examine the diachronic development of hedges.We used Hyland's (1998Hyland's ( , 2018 taxonomy of hedging devices to analyse the selected corpus. AntConc 4.2.4 Concordance software was used for the analysis of the data. To establish statistical significance, a log-likelihood test was also performed. The analysis revealed that over the past 43 years, the use of hedges has increased significantly (65.10%). Hedging modals were the most commonly used hedging type, whereas hedging nouns were the least frequently utilised. The study also discovered increases in the use of hedging verbs (63.10%), hedging adjectives (1.72%), hedging modals (66.67%), and hedging nouns (97.06%), but decreases in the use of hedging adverbs (-1.86%) and hedging quantifiers/determiners (21.89%). "See" and "show" were the most common lexical verbs, while "possible" and "potential" were the most common hedging adjectives. "Can" was the most often-used hedging modal, "probability" for hedging nouns and "usually" for hedging adverbs. The study concludes that theses in Civil Engineering are becoming more reader-oriented, and that writers' use of hedges contribute to an increase in persuasiveness in academic texts. The findings of this study have implications for teaching academic writing.

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Hedging practices in soft science research articles: A corpus-based analysis of Indonesian authors

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Postgraduate EFL Students’ Use of Hedging Strategies in Academic Writing

Postgraduate EFL Students’ Use of Hedging Strategies in Academic Writing

A diachronic corpus-based study of hedging in L2 postgraduate theses in civil engineering

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