"I" in academic and scholarly writing

[rm]

This is not a search for advice. This is a point of curiosity to me, because my education was sort of extreme and obsessive on this point, and it occurs to me that perhaps other fifth-graders were not scarred for life by writing papers that said things like "this author feels that Disney World would be an idea summer vacation destination for her family."

So, inquiring minds and all that....

[Poll #1563413]

Comments

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a really tough bind - the double-shame, that is. I swear, writing education, it's a dangerous thing and teachers don't realize how dangerous...I just read an article by a student from China who got the third degree in American schools for writing the way she'd been taught (never go straight to the point, always efface the self and invoke authority figures to justify your point, etc.)