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Direct linkThonney, Teresa – Across the Disciplines, 2013
This article describes a study of how students use first person pronouns in papers written for undergraduate courses in multiple disciplines. If prompted, students imitate some of the ways experts use first person to establish their authority; but just as often students use first person pronouns to express uncertainty or to reveal that they have…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Form Classes (Languages), Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
