Items for "Academic writing"

Political scientists on the functions of personal pronouns in their writing: An interview-based study of ‘I’ and ‘we’

In contrast to the numerous corpus-based studies of pronouns in academic writing, this paper uses qualitative interviews in an attempt to account for academic writers' motivations for using the pronouns ‘I’ and ‘we’ and to describe the textual effects that each case of ‘I’ and ‘we’ helps to create...

Keywords: Academic writing, personal pronouns, political science, discourse analysis, interview-based research, persuasion