"I" in academic and scholarly writing

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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....

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[byzantienne.livejournal.com]

I think you have to say 'I' in that situation. To do otherwise is to betray the integrity of your evidence.

It is very strange, thinking of how different this kind of work is when (some of) your sources are alive. All of mine are safely dead.