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