2.1.3. Personal and Impersonal Narrator PDF Print E-mail
 

There is no coherence among scholarly disciplines regarding the expression of the narrators point of view. While the natural and exact sciences by standard use the ‘objectivized’ third person author (“the research believes” or “the author of this work promotes”), the first person narrator is commonly found in the social sciences. Arguments can be brought forward for both versions. I believe that it has merit to decide on a case by case basis which of the practices to deploy. In general I did not opt to ‘semantically disguise’ my role as author. Specifically when it is a personal decision based on experience or preference in style I do not think that the recent trend to use the third person to make a decision sound more objective is helpful. Throughout this work both styles have been applied following my judgement.
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