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Can you say we when writing a report with formal writing conventions?
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If the report is written by more than one person, the appropriate pronoun is 'we'. If it is written by one person, the appropriate pronoun is 'I'.
There is a convention that the author(s) of a report should be referred to in the third person (for example, 'The present author believes that ...', or 'This was discovered by the authors last year ...'). However, there is no justification for this on any grounds of readability, clarity, or grammar. It is jargon.
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