Yeah, it’s dumb. We write like normal people in academic papers too. I don’t know why they ever taught it this way.

That also sounds odd to me. I’ve been consistently taught in school to avoid passive voice and it was a huge struggle for me for a long time (case in point). I’m attending a college in Canada for the record.

Remember, it’s never “your dildo,” it’s “a dildo.”

I got taught that rule in my freshman year, but then my thesis advisor told me to stop doing that because “only old people write like that”

So I suppose academia is evolving (however you still aren’t allowed to use first person speech)