I’ve been doing what I feel most comfortable with doing: using passive voice. After all, when I say “it can be seen that”, I really do mean that it can be seen, and it doesn’t matter who is the one who shows it.

I have yet to show most of my work to my advisor, though, so there’s a chance he might advise me to use words that give me more credit for things that I’ve done that are new. This might be more important if I was intending to submit my work to a journal for publication, though. Plus, I’m not entirely sure how much of my work is truly new, or if it’s just a new way of looking at things that are already known.