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How to avoid using the first person in English papers?
In formal writing, we should use the first person less or not, and try to use the third person and passive voice.

For example, if we want to explain in the paper that we use Faraday cup to collect ion current, we should use "collecting ions through Faraday cup" instead of "we use Faraday cup to collect ions".

Let's briefly talk about the writing of English articles and matters needing attention:

Theme: Strong generality, innovation and refinement.

Matters needing attention in topic writing: English topics mainly appear in the form of phrases, especially noun phrases, that is, topics are basically composed of one or several nouns plus their prepositions and/or postattributes. For example, in the fabrication of phrasal topics, the head word should be determined and then modified before and after. The order of each word is very important, and improper word order will lead to inaccurate expression.

Generally speaking, the topic should not be a declarative sentence, because the topic mainly plays a marking role, and declarative sentences easily make the topic have judgmental semantics; Besides, declarative sentences are not concise and eye-catching, and the key points are not easy to highlight. In a few cases (critical, comprehensive and refuting), questions can be used as topics, because they can have an exploratory tone and easily arouse readers' interest.

Abbreviations in the title can only be used in the title if they are recognized by the whole scientific and technological community or scientific and technological personnel in this industry, otherwise they should not be used easily. In addition, we should pay attention to the limitation of the number of words in the topic. Foreign sci-tech journals generally limit the number of words in a topic, and these regulations can be used for our reference. The general principle is that the topic should be precise, concise and eye-catching, and the fewer words the better.

It does not repeat the conclusion, which reflects the conclusion and thinking of the whole article, including the purpose, method, result and application of the research work.

Matters needing attention in writing: Abstract is a short article that concisely and accurately describes the important contents of the literature, with the purpose of summarizing the contents of the literature without comments or supplementary explanations. Its basic elements include research objectives, methods, results and conclusions. Specifically, it is the main object and scope of research work, the means and methods adopted, the achievements and important conclusions obtained, and sometimes other important information with intelligence value. It should be self-evident and have the same amount of information as the literature, that is, you can get the necessary information without reading the full text.