Some possible journals on a quick whizz through Scopus for "students writing first person" : Research in the Teaching of English; International Education Studies; Language and Education; English Teaching; Educational Philosophy and Theory; Reflective Practice; maybe some of the "in higher education" titles like Higher education quarterly/Journal of higher education/Teaching in higher education. (I'm sure there are others, particularly on the school side; it'd need a bit more thinking about the keywords to do better, I think.)
This is very much a side view of your question, but below is a quote from "Writing at University", Creme and Lea, 2008, Open University Press (pp 131-2) (which happened to be the first e-book in a search for "writing university" in our catalogue)- so this isn't specific to English lecturers, it goes more to students being confused in general. "9.4 Using ‘I’ in your assignments. Students are often puzzled as to whether they can use the first person in their university assignments. [...] In fact, in some subjects the use of ‘I’ is encouraged and in others it is actually ‘forbidden’. This can also vary between tutors, even within a single subject area. In some cases, the subject or the tutor is flexible about it and you may well find that it is quite acceptable to make use of the first person as long as you know why you are doing it. The use of the first person is also related to the question of bringing your own opinion into your work. In some subjects tutors will say that they want to know what you think, while in other subjects your own thinking is viewed as irrelevant. This kind of difference can be very frustrating for students. What are you meant to do? You may have begun a course because it seemed to be about your own interests, but then you find that you are not expected to bring in your own experiences or opinions or yourself after all. You may find that you are expected to write as if you were not present in a situation when you were. For example, if you have carried out a science experiment, you will probably be expected to use the passive tense: to say ‘this was done’ and not ‘I did this’." [quote too long for comment box, continued in next comment]
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Date: 2016-01-14 11:59 am (UTC)This is very much a side view of your question, but below is a quote from "Writing at University", Creme and Lea, 2008, Open University Press (pp 131-2) (which happened to be the first e-book in a search for "writing university" in our catalogue)- so this isn't specific to English lecturers, it goes more to students being confused in general.
"9.4 Using ‘I’ in your assignments.
Students are often puzzled as to whether they can use the first person in their university assignments. [...] In fact, in some subjects the use of ‘I’ is encouraged and in others it is actually ‘forbidden’. This can also vary between tutors, even within a single subject area. In some cases, the subject or the tutor is flexible about it and you may well find that it is quite acceptable to make use of the first person as long as you know why you are doing it. The use of the first person is also related to the question of bringing your own opinion into your work. In some subjects tutors will say that they want to know what you think, while in other subjects your own thinking is viewed as irrelevant. This kind of difference can be very frustrating for students. What are you meant to do? You may have begun a course because it seemed to be about your own interests, but then you find that you are not expected to bring in your own experiences or opinions or yourself after all. You may find that you are expected to write as if you were not present in a situation when you were. For example, if you have carried out a science experiment, you will probably be expected to use the passive tense: to say ‘this was done’ and not ‘I did this’."
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