Show your voice in the text: Using boosting and hedging techniques

Writing an academic paper can be compared to driving a car since there is a need to leverage the author’s attitude: hit the gas, using emphatic constructions when necessary, or slow down to soften the claims and use hedging when we are unsure. This workshop will focus on using some techniques, which will allow you to demonstrate your attitude towards ideas, varying the degree of emphasis. You will practice effective use of boosting and hedging nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs and some expressions in academic writing. Manipulation of certainty and doubt will be discussed from the point of view of reasonable distribution among different sections of academic paper. Speaker: Olga Karamalak ABOUT THE HSE AWC The HSE Academic Writing Center (AWC) is a collaborative space where university faculty and researchers can get language support at any time. JOIN US AWC website: