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  THE IMPORTANCE OF HEDGING HEDGING is the expression of tentativeness and possibility in language use. It represents an absence of certainty.  Features used in HEDGING: - Lexical verbs: indicate - propose - assumne - estimate - suggest - appear - tend to - argue - Adverbial constructions: often - almost - occasionally - sometimes - quite - usually -     probably - certainly  - Modal verbs: must - will/would - should - may - can/could - might    Writers/Researchers use hedging techniques for two reasons:  1) To tone down their statements in order to reduce the threat of opposition from other      researchers. 2) To avoid overstating their results as they are aware that theirs may not be the final word on      the issue. Examples:  A) Categorical claim:        The issues highlighted in this study are applicable to all participating        institutions.    ...

      Academic genres include essays, articles, papers, abstracts, among many others.  Let's focus our attention on the first one:  ESSAY . As you know there are different kinds of essays:  descriptive, narrative, persuasion, expository, comparative, opinion, argumentative essays .   Basically they are 5-paragraph long formal texts (although they can be longer, of course). Interactive board. Click here Interactive board. Click here   DECONSTRUCTION PROCESS: "I've spent the whole morning correcting a text, and actually I removed only one comma. In the afternoon, I added it." Oscar Wilde. "Publico, para dejar de corregir." Jorge Luis Borges. "Writing is very easy. You simply have to remove the incorrect words." Mark Twain. Un corazón simple, Gustave Flaubert The Tiger, William Blake Finnegan's Wake, by James Joyce. 1984, by George Orwell. Retrieved from:  https://isfd41-bue.infd.edu.ar/aula/prg_texto.cgi?wAccion=ver_texto&id_texto=3738...

 "WE REFUGEE" - Benjamin Zephaniah      The idea of becoming a refugee, allows any human being to reflect on different experiences undergone in life. Deep feelings and perhaps a few glimmers of hope may arise on those who deal with this thought.  Benjamin Zephaniah finds a wise way to make the readers conscious about the need anyone might have to flee to a foreign country to escape danger or persecution. Thus, he dares use the powerful and inclusive term “WE”.  Notions such as prejudice, disrespect and prohibition are clearly portrayed in this poem as well as longing for one´s homeland and sadness for lack of brotherhood.  Each stanza describes not only these author´s feelings but also his intention of including all humankind in this context, in spite of having written his piece of work as a personal experience. REFUGEES - Brian Bilston                    In Brian Bilston´s “Refugees”, a challeng...

Presentations:  THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE.                                           G. YULE. Chapter 1 - THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE Chapter 2 - ANIMALS AND HUMAN LANGUAGE THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE We do not know how language originated because there is lack of written evidence. But we do know that we share the ability to produce sounds and vocal pattering with all vertebrates. Because of the lack of evidence, there has been many speculations about its origins. Some of the hypothesis or theories are: The Divine Source The Natural Sound Source The Social Interaction Source The Physical Adaptation source The tool-making source The genetic source The Divine Source In most religions there appears to be a divine source who provides humans with language. The basic hypothesis seems to have been that if human infants were allowed to row without ...