Assess graduate students' ability to identify, classify, and analyze hedging and stance markers in peer-reviewed articles across STEM, social sciences, and humanities; tasks include locating lexical and grammatical hedges (modals, epistemic adverbs, mitigation strategies), distinguishing stance types (epistemic, evidential, affective), comparing disciplinary patterns, explaining rhetorical functions for claim-making, and proposing brief coding criteria for a cross-disciplinary corpus.