"Not I"

[steepholm]

I want to find out about the extent to which school pupils and university students are discouraged by English teachers/lecturers from using the first person pronoun in essays.

Does anyone know whether recent-ish research has been carried out on that topic - or where might be a good place to look for it?

Comments

[cmcmck]

'Me' is very much the local dialect form here, so I never encouraged one way or the other.