: Re: Can I use the passive voice to avoid referring to myself in a scientific report? I'm writing a report for a piece of University coursework, but I understand that I should avoid referring to

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You can also use the royal "we", even if there was only one person doing it.

"We conditioned the matrices using ..."

"After these adjustments, we found a significant increase in ..."

We use this extensively. We think it improves readability as well. It has never been mentioned as an issue in any (of many) peer reviews.

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