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While the primary preference of peer reviewers for accepting publishable manuscripts is their scientific message to inspire the scholarly audience as well as the novelty of research findings the authors are trying to promote, the quality of writing for publication is also among prominent criteria peer reviewers are concerned with. Generally, the contribution of outstanding articles to the expanding body of knowledge is framed into sophisticated modes of communication, where authors are recommended to use formal, accurate, and intellectual language for expressing the scientific message. Among certain linguistic devices, boosters (used for expressing definite facts) and hedges (used for showing degrees of uncertainty) bear advantageous metadiscoursal functions for scientific writing. Both boosters and hedges are strategies by which authors can adjust the degrees of certainty expressed and avoid absolutism wherever required in a particular context. These can help authors effectively convey their interpretations of research findings.