Instead of defining a person by a label, person-first language conveys respect by emphasizing the fact that people are, first and foremost, just that: people.

If you are writing a speech, use of the first and even the second person (“you”) is generally encouraged because these personal pronouns can create a connection between speaker and listener and can ...

Learn more about first and third person narratives in this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

To learn more about first person use in your discipline, pay attention to published writing and ask your professors for their expectations. Using the first person in STEM writing: The use of the first ...

Writing a doctoral dissertation was as close to writing a novel as I came in my academic career, although I wrote several books on scholarly themes in the ensuing decades.

The use of the word “I” in academic writing, that is writing in the first person, has a troublesome history. Some say it makes writing too subjective, others that it’s essential for accuracy.

First-person writing has long been the Internet’s native voice. As long as there have been bloggers, there have been young people scraping their interior lives in order to convert the rawest ...

Gayle’s son Ben had finished first grade. So as a family friend, I figured I’d give a nod to what I thought was a second-grade rite of passage: “Hey, Ben—next year handwriting!” I might as well have ...