Writing Tip 14: Confidence, Evidence and Citations
How confident should a sentence in your paper sound? Exactly as confident as your evidence lets you be — no more, no less.
What you will learn
- The rule: sound exactly as confident as your evidence allows, no more, no less
- How to spot over-hedging and overclaiming in your own draft
- The test to run before softening or strengthening any claim: what’s actually behind it?
Free, self-paced, one sitting. Finish the quiz and you get a certificate.
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