"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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[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

I don't remember being specifically told anything about this (unlike second person). But I did, nevertheless, internalize a prohibition against "I" somewhere along the line. I remember thinking it quite cheeky when I used it in a short paper once in college.