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this paper only has one author, so i assume the use of "we" throughout is the "royal we"? i thought papers were meant to use constructs such as "github was sear
by zabzonk 4y ago
this paper only has one author, so i assume the use of "we" throughout is the "royal we"? i thought papers were meant to use constructs such as "github was searched", rather than "we searched github", but perhaps that's just we getting old.
- azhenley 4y agoPassive voice is considered bad and gets annoying to read ("GitHub was searched"). "We" is common regardless of the number of authors, though theses are a bit odd in that the work is often collaborative but the document is solo authored. Just say what you did. "We searched GitHub."
- robinhouston 4y agoThese conventions are field-specific. In mathematics and computer science, the almost universal convention is to use the first person plural.