Question

The academic writer avoids assertiveness in his writing what type of academic text feature is this

Answer 1

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Explanation:

Tentative expressions are considered to undermine the persuasiveness in the learners" writing. Hyland (2008) reports that Hong Kong EFL teachers strongly advice learners to introduce statements in essays with expressions such as: "It cannot be denied that", "There is no doubt that", "In fact", "It is true that", "As we all know" etc. This is probably the case in Greek L2 classrooms, particularly in the private sector, where L2 learners also receive intensive explicit instruction in order to get English certificate diplomas. ...

... Students can be asked to paraphrase a passage in a textbook either by keeping the same degree of certainty, or by reformulating it, making claims more tentative (Hyland, 2000). Hyland (2008) also supports corpus exploration, which allows students to search large amounts of epistemic items, either alone or in combinations, in authentic data. ...