ATS1340 ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES WORKBOOK 1 ISSUE 4 | Page 7

ATS1340 ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
DAY 5: SESSION 2
HEDGING & CONDITIONALITY
PREPARATION
1. Watch the presentation Writing about the ideas of others
http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/apw/video-resources/ (scroll down page)
2. Brick, J. (2009) Academic Culture Chapters 1 & 13 (.ppt on Moodle)
3. Voice in Academic Writing PDF (on DAY 5 Moodle)
READINGS & OTHER RESOURCES
1. http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/apw/files/2013/03/writing-about-theideas-of-others.pdf
2. Hyland, K. (1996) “Nurturing hedges in the ESP curriculum” System, Vol. 24,
No. 4, pp. 477490. 1996
[http://moodle.vle.monash.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=3598902]
3. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conditional.htm
PRE-TEST [DISCUSSION IN WEBINAR]
Briefly define ‘hedging’ as a desirable feature of academic writing:
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Suggest why introducing this degree of uncertainty is a desirable (almost necessary)
feature of academic writing:
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IDENTIFY THE SENTENCES HEDGED MORE AND THE DEVICES USED TO ACHIEVE THE EFFECT
It may be said that the commitment to some of the social and economic concepts was less strong
than it is now.
The commitment to some of the social and economic concepts was less strong than it is now.
The lives they chose may seem overly ascetic and self-denying to most women today.
The lives they chose seem overly ascetic and self-denying to most women today.
Weismann suggested that animals become old because, if they did not, there could be no
successive replacement of individuals and hence no evolution.
Weismann proved that animals become old because, if they did not, there could be no successive
replacement of individuals and hence no evolution.
Yet often it cannot have been the case that a recalcitrant trustee remained in possession of the
property entrusted to him.
Yet a recalcitrant trustee did not remain in possession of the property entrusted to him.
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