I-Dropping and Androgyny: The Authorial I in Scholarly Writing

From Critical Research Practice to Critical Research Reporting

“…Among the initial shifts in research writing is the more relaxed use of the first person pronoun. But this perfunctory "I-dropping" (see Raymond, 1993) is too weak a gesture to incorporate the complex splits and shifts in the subject positions of the researcher, characterized by a mixture of divided interests and values influencing the research process. Another rhetorical move has been to open the report with an announcement of the subject positions occupied by the researcher: "I am a white male tenured liberal from the mid-west."…”

The Rise and Fall of Comprehensive Accounting Theories: R. J. Chambers and Continuously Contemporary Accounting

“…When necessary, my own views and actions are occasionally written in firstperson, to avoid confusing them with the description of the material and the actions of those who appear in the narrative (for a discussion of the use of first person, see e.g. Kirsch, 1994;Raymond, 1993). In addition, in the analysis of the material that appears in the narrative, each document has been considered as an important object in its own right.…”