: Re: Origin of Passive Voice or Third Person in scientific Writing I was reading a turkish translation of Robert A. Day , How to Write & Publish a Scientific Paper. Foreword is written by A.

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I have written many scientific papers using first person singular and have not had any problems from editors. Many physics journals encourage it as a matter of fact. I will admit that most papers unfortunately do use this convention. Also, as mentioned, when some papers do use first person, they use plural even if there is only one author. I also use "we" but only in the context when when I am involving the reader, "we can then see that ..."

So, I encourage you to use the first person when it is appropriate. Anything you can do to get your point across in an interesting style helps you.

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