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by glimcat 5448 days ago
Among academics, the convention is to use "we" when writing papers irregardless of the number of authors. It's half custom and half a matter of maintaining professional distance.

Use "we" even if everyone can see that it's a single-author paper. It communicates that it is a company and not just your personal services, which is especially important if it's just your services for now. You can still come back and talk about the exciting thing you're personally working on as a founder.

In either case, pick the singular or the plural and stick with it. Mixing "I" and "our" like you currently are is a matter of grammar rather than style.

2 comments

English is not my primary language and sometimes I really have difficulties writing what I want to say. I will try to read more about this.
>irregardless

I was crucified on /. when I wrote that :)

Call it revenge on my elementary school English teacher for complaining about "ain't." ;)