As well as being cautious, your writing should also be emotionally neutral. This can be difficult to do if you are talking about an emotional subject, but you need to remain objective. You should be basing your argument on previous research and on evidence, so there’s no need to appeal to the emotions of your reader.
You’ll find this approach very different from newspapers which try to stir your feelings in order to make their articles appear interesting. Therefore, you should avoid emotive terms such as marvellous, wonderful and dreadful.
For example, you wouldn’t write, ‘This was an appalling situation’.
Instead, you could write, ‘This was a difficult situation’.