Dear fellow writer,
Welcome back to Swordcraft, my new series of short, sharp weekly videos for writers who want to hone their wordcraft, one snippet at a time.
Today’s swordsnip is the sixth and final installment in a 6-part sequence for paid subscribers called Research Bites, which offers bite-sized summaries of research articles on academic and professional writing.
This week’s featured article, “The First Person,” first appeared in Teaching and Learning Inquiry in 2019 and was republished in the Good Writing Gazette in 2020. I had a lot of fun playing around with first, second, and third person pronouns in this research-based essay about first, second, and third person pronoun usage in scholarly writing.
Paid subscribers can find a downloadable pdf at the bottom of this post.
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Kia pai tō koutou rā (have a great day) – and keep on writing!
Helen
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