Other People's Prose

Avoidance of the first person is something which has caused academic writing to be felt overly abstract. Cases may be objected to, but the objection seems free of any concrete agency. Such a passive tone is not to be encouraged. Much overinflation, tautology, repetition, overwordiness which is to be avoided by careful writers is fostered, encouraged, reinforced, created, imposed by the disconnection between the subject and the verb, not to mention the means by which or in which or of which the verb connects to or with an object that relates to and connects with the verb is not necessarily the most lucid of grammatical opinations. It is not that it is said that meaning has to be expressed by reference to the person who has produced meaning, rather some people have argued that a concrete placement within a specific communities of speakers, communicators, critics, researchers, writers and utterers allows for a clearer generation of meaning within the reader, audience, addressee, auditor or receptor.