In)appropriate Personal Pronoun Use in Political Science A Qualitative Study and a Proposed Heuristic for Future Research

摘要: This article describes five political scientists’ interview-based accounts of appropriate and inappropriate use the pronouns I we in academic writing. The informants talked about pronoun with reference to one their own journal articles also by referring other informants’ texts. Beliefs varied widely, it was emphasized that discipline encompasses a number subdisciplines, which helps account for these differing preferences. insights implications study are discussed, heuristic combines corpus-based approaches investigation is proposed. part provides researcher data on typical disciplinary patterns use, whereas motivations intentions inform use. It argued could be adapted investigate linguistic features ...