Timeline for Who is "we" in my thesis?
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| Jan 28, 2020 at 9:00 | comment | added | Dan | Ah, and that one is not "off-topic" (you closed all of my other posts) - you're kidding! | |
| Jul 9, 2016 at 11:55 | answer | added | Nick Louloudakis | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 20:43 | comment | added | The Nate | Always read that as the authors speaking, so it would seem incongruous in a dissertation. | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 17:07 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/751462692867739652 | ||
| Jul 8, 2016 at 15:30 | answer | added | user184431 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 13:57 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | I always saw us as part of the greater mathematical community. We have been studying it long enough that we are now reading new results that one of us has come up with. We mostly all have the same foundational knowledge, and we could (should?) be following along with your thesis and all of us could (should?) be actually working through the proofs that one of us is presenting in any paper. Normally, we are too lazy and just try to keep up in our heads, which is probably why we got into mathematics in the first place. | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 13:17 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 8, 2016 at 12:59 | comment | added | Peter K. | @GEdgar Yes, this question seems to be a very, very similar question. | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 12:58 | comment | added | Peter K. | Possible duplicate of Style Question: Use of "we" vs. "I" vs. passive voice in a dissertation | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 12:42 | comment | added | GEdgar | If there is more than one author, it could refer to all of them. If there is only one author, Paul Halmos suggests that "we" refers to "the author and the reader". By the way ... I expect this question will be closed as a duplicate pretty soon. | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 12:11 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | What do you mean, We, paleface? | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 12:06 | answer | added | Peter K. | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 12:03 | comment | added | Allan S. Hansen | It depends on the context as your examples also show. | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 12:01 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 8, 2016 at 12:00 | history | asked | Dan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |