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   Michael Piotrowski (mxp@mastodon.acm.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 03:58:29 JST Michael Piotrowski

   Some years ago, I decided to simply use “I” in scholarly articles when I refer to myself. What’s the point of using “this article,” “the author,” and similar contortions instead?

   I now received a review that *strongly* suggests I write “this article proposes” instead of “I propose.” But I still fail to see how this would make the article better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 03:58:28 JST screwlisp

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     @mxp yeah, I am on the I side of this fence too.We have that hilarious letter from Einstein about gravitational lensing after all.

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     screwlisp (screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 03:59:22 JST screwlisp

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     @mxp Alternatejoke:
     But this article still fails to see how this would make the article better ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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     JackieM (jackiemauro@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 11:26:55 JST JackieM

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     @mxp I HATE conventions of academic writing that do not make your meaning any clearer. As if reading academic writing weren’t hard enough. It always just felt like gate keeping to me.

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     Peter H. Fröhlich (phf@mastodon.acm.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 11:26:55 JST Peter H. Fröhlich

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     @mxp I always thought of "we" even for a single author paper in CS as "me and the people I regularly work with and had many long chats about the contents of this paper with". Of course responsibility for crap in the paper is still solely with the single author. I don't know, worked for me.

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     Michael Piotrowski (mxp@mastodon.acm.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 11:26:56 JST Michael Piotrowski

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     • Paul (Tex) Hewson

     @texhewson I guess the “pedagogical we” makes sense for proofs and the like, but may sound strange in other contexts…

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     Paul (Tex) Hewson (texhewson@datasci.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 11:26:58 JST Paul (Tex) Hewson

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     @mxp In math papers we use "we" a lot. I think the idea is that "we" means the reader and writer together. That's freaked out a few non-math co-authors, even when it was the journal style.