"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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I'm currently working on a Masters in Geochemistry, and with very few exceptions, 'I' is never used in journal articles and other scientific writing. If I've been doing a lot of scientific writing lately, I have a very hard time putting personality back into emails and such, and my everyday vocabulary involves much more complex terminology! My Mom and Brother usually avoid talking to me when I get like that. lol!