"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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There wasn't an 'is acceptable if you feel like doing it and your tutor isn't one of those people against it', or even 'is empowering!' option for the last question, or I would have ticked one of those.

I actually did a subject titled 'academic writing' in my first semester at uni; it was an English subject and very enjoyable, and overall pro use of I, although we discussed the decision to use or not to use it in depth.