Timeline for Style Question: Use of "we" vs. "I" vs. passive voice in a dissertation
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| Jan 16, 2023 at 22:32 | comment | added | Tuffy | Wise advice, Kosmonaut. Ultimately, one would hope (there I go) that supervisors and assessors would not judge the quality of a research or examination paper by whether the reasoning is objective rather than whether the style 'feels' objective. The active/passive issue was an obsession when I was at university 60 years ago. It is a matter of style. All the same, check with the supervisor/assessor and in this follow the system if there is one. | |
| Apr 11, 2017 at 13:59 | comment | added | Mitja | However, if you're on your own and already wrote your paper using we, just add F. D. C. Willard as a co-author. | |
| Jan 25, 2011 at 20:56 | vote | accept | kgarten | ||
| Jan 25, 2011 at 20:41 | history | answered | Kosmonaut | CC BY-SA 2.5 |