How to write like a scientist
sciencecareers.sciencemag.org"Using the first person in your writing humanizes your work. If possible, therefore, you should avoid using the first person in your writing."
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Journal articles are not and should not be poetic; their aim is not to be interesting but to convey information unambiguously, including to readers for whom English is not a first language. In the one example given, his adviser was quite right; using "only" six times may be less interesting than using "lone" some of the time, but it's clearer. The list in the article is just unfunny garbage.