Hedges and Boosters in Indonesian Scientific Articles

Hedging and boosting or ‘pembentengan’ (Indonesian) is the act of scientific writers in maintaining smooth communication. This paper answers two problem formulations, i.e., what are linguistic manifestations hedges boosters Indonesian articles, how their meaning reveals writer's level confidence information conveyed. study aims to enrich description writing practices Indonesia support development skills general. research uses descriptive qualitative methods. data form sentences containing from various journals published through note-taking technique. The main theory analyze on boosters. were analyzed semantically, syntactically, pragmatically. results show that adverbs most commonly used Scientific writing. cannot always be determined by lexical because each hedge booster has seen its use sentence. community own agreement social interaction articles.Keywords: writing; boosters; confidence; doubt; function;