One thing I can’t stop thinking about is the fact that in the coma seasons (or at least 1999 – I haven’t finished the other two) , despite Archer’s focused hatred of Cyril , he seems to respect Cyril more than he respects Ray ? Because in each season , Archer still sees Cyril as a major player in the story no matter how pathetic he tries to make him look , while Ray is more just shown to be a flamboyant nuisance . Like , sure he berates Cyril throughout there space missions , but unlike Ray , Cyril is still there fighting (albeit poorly) beside them . Meanwhile Ray just stays on the ship pigging out . And while Archer seems to hate Cyril , he still somewhat acknowledges that Cyril can be a threat : The egg episode , Cyril shooting up all of Barry 6’s men , overpowering Ray in the space snail episode , chopping Krieger in half & tackling Rock-Monster Pam in the arena etc.
“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass
In this essay, this writer will explore the implications of pretending that one’s own personal view is not part of one’s essay, and the inaccessibility of academia related to established custom of artificial detachment.
In this essay, I will demonstrate that the blanket ban on first-person pronouns in high-school and some university English classes is poorly understood and hastily adopted as a result. I will further illustrate that it is a mere substitute for explaining to inexperienced writers that excessive use of phrases like “I think” or “I believe” is unnecessary and rhetorically weakens academic writing, and that opinions expressed in an essay are already assumed to be those of the author. Finally, I will address strategies for effectively conveying that information to students, who often find it difficult to grasp.
In this essay, passive voice will be used throughout in order to distance the work done from any researchers, or, in reality, kind of imply all experiments were done by magical lab gremlins and the results were simply recorded.
in this essay, enlightenment will descend upon you without the agency of any living being. you will know things, yet know not how you know.
prepare yourself. it begins.
You write with “I” in some types of essays but in others it weakens what you’re saying and idk why you guys take that so personally
If I remember correctly it’s that when you’re writing the kind of essays that you write in school it’s supposed to be objective? And if you use “I” it’s not, it’s clearly opinion? Of course it’s all opinion. But like.
I don’t get it. Just don’t use I. It’s not hard. It doesn’t need to be passive?
Anyway it’s probably a rule adopted in school because of little actual merit to writing that way, but it’s probably easier in a setting where a fair number of the writers have a very loose grasp of grammar for whatever reason.
Yeah that as well.
Also, and I doubt it’s because it’s just been ingrained in me, “I” sounds less professional. It just does. I don’t know why, but it’s not because I consciously think “that’s less professional”, “I” is just less convincing.
have you ever stayed up late with someone texting or chatting and known as the hours ticked by that you’d be ridiculously tired in the morning but it didnt matter because it was really fun and totally worth losing sleep over just to laugh with someone and enjoy their company maybe and then the next day you keep tiredly recalling how much fun it was while you’re falling asleep in class and that makes it not so bad that you’re tired anymore
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