{"id":18293,"date":"2018-08-06T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/?p=18293"},"modified":"2018-08-27T10:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T05:18:35","slug":"hedging-in-academic-writing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/hedging-in-academic-writing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedging in Academic Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hedging is often used in academic writing to express uncertainty or indirectness in certain statements or findings. 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