Fenno, Richard F., Jr. 2013. The Challenge of Congressional Representation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College. ISBN: 978-0674072695.
“Some things to remember that drive me nuts…do not use personal pronouns in scholarly writing and do not use contractions in scholarly writing. You cannot know what anyone thinks, feels, or believes. You can know what they write, argue, contend, or suggest, however. When you cite an author in the text, do not write, “Mr. Fenno argues….” or even worse, “Richard argues….”. Instead just write, for example, “Fenno argues….” or “The author argues…”. Finally, my two pet peeves: it’s means it is, not the possessive, and “impact” is not a verb and you should never use it as such in my presence. ”
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