Timeline for First-person pronoun for things other than mathematical steps - singular or plural?
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| Mar 19, 2023 at 16:55 | comment | added | benwiggy | Didn't the use of passive in scientific literature come about because 19th-century gentlemen-scientists often had their servants do the manual work? "the apparatus was assembled." | |
| Mar 19, 2023 at 0:50 | comment | added | David | The act of writing "we" in a single author paper is uncomfortable, the act of reading "we" in such a paper is entirely natural. That's how a large majority of academic papers are written. | |
| Mar 17, 2023 at 15:39 | history | answered | Greg Martin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |