: Re: How do expert writers avoid using "I" when they have to refer to themselves in their article? How do competent authors, in a refined and perhaps (slightly) formal way, refer to themselves without

@Cody1607638

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Competence precludes finding oneself needing to mean "I" but having to say "this writer" - or, variously:

the author
your correspondent
this ink-stained wretch (please, no!)

TBH, the form hardly matters - silk purses and sow's ears, etc.

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