Here, we reveal some history behind they as a singular pronoun, explain which groups find it acceptable and why, and help you to think about whether you might use it in your writing.
In this article, the author pro-vides recent and accurate suggestions on whether or not singular they has come back into general usage by reviewing current style guidelines and recent …
The use of singular “they” is endorsed by the International Writing Centers Association, a conference of the National Council of Teachers of English. IWCA offers this footnote text to be …
The following templates help writers introduce and discuss sources (‘they’) when writing a literature review. Additionally, these templates help writers summarize and synthesize the …
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We interpret this novel finding as revealing how a linguistic antecedent can signal the irrelevance of gender in a discourse and thereby licenses singular they.
You can think of “they” as any specific author, or as the mass of experts writing on your topic. “They” may also be written as “X” to symbolize an author’s name.