Academic Writer
academic writer: tone: one
One
If you want to create an objective or neutral tone, then
avoid using the pronoun 'I'. Using the pronoun 'one' is a possibility.
EXAMPLES OF COMMON PHRASES
| one could envisage | one might expect | one need only turn to |
| one could argue that | one might ask | The question one seeks to answer is |
| one could seriously question | one must remember |
EXAMPLES OF SENTENCES
| The institution itself has to recognize the need for
change and be prepared for it, and one could
argue that the management become heavily involved in the change
itself. Michael Davis notes that in thinking like an engineer, one must remember the place of a code of ethics in the practice of his/her profession. Since computer-integration systems perform the changes in the same way each time, one might expect them to make more reliable changes, even if they are effected more slowly. If this argument were truly compelling, one might have expected many more of the forward-thinking companies, to have adopted FMS technology as a stepping-stone towards the flexible technology of the 21st-century plant As flexibility increases, the performance of the system improves, as one might expect. For example, one might ask for proposals concerning biology of plants of agricultural importance. There are super-successes, these days, but no legends. To get a hint of what is missing, one need only turn to recent video and audio releases: Reissues feature prominently. Since there already exist complicated statistical techniques that function well, one could seriously question the need for developing alternative models that do not have the advantage of being simple and easy to use. With partnerships under carefully specified franchising arrangements, one could envisage the first or even the first and second years of a degree programme being delivered close to home. |
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