2008-10-20, 02:04 PM
When you write a formal paper (say an English paper for a University), should you use "you"?
In high school, I had a teacher who taught that for college paper, it is more formal to use "one" instead of "you". Like instead of saying "your opinion", you should write "one's opinion". As I become more familiar with writing, I see more people just writing "you" instead of "one" so now there's conflict. Things for like lab reports, however are more likely to have "one" instead of "you".
In high school, I had a teacher who taught that for college paper, it is more formal to use "one" instead of "you". Like instead of saying "your opinion", you should write "one's opinion". As I become more familiar with writing, I see more people just writing "you" instead of "one" so now there's conflict. Things for like lab reports, however are more likely to have "one" instead of "you".