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I am the sole author of a paper which I would like to publish in a journal.

Is it better to use "I" for example "In this paper, I present xyz"

Or is better to avoid "I" like "In this paper, xyz is presented"

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Answer: even with a single authored papers, you should normally use "we", not "I".

"In this paper we present a very interesting theory of everything. We do this by invoking the idea of...".

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