To or Not to : Corpus-Based Research on First-Person Pronoun Use in Abstracts and Conclusions

A growing trend exists for authors to employ a more informal writing style that uses “we” in academic writing to acknowledge one’s stance and engagement. However, few studies have compared the ways in which the first-person pronoun “we” is used in the abstracts and conclusions of empirical papers. T...

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Main Authors: Shih-ping Wang, Wen-Ta Tseng, Robert Johanson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-04-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211008893