Question $3$

$10$ pts

Many professors prohibit students from using the first person pronoun $"$ I $"$ in their writing on the grounds that these pronouns encourage ill$-$considered, subjective opinions rather than wellreasoned arguments. Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein disagree with this opinion for all of the following reasons except:

Expressing an ill$-$considered, subjective opinion is not the worst mistake that a student writer can make.

Students are going to use first person pronouns regardless of the rules, so it's fruitless to forbid it$.$

Not allowing the use of first person can both keep students from taking strong positions as well as clearly differentiating between their own arguments and those of others.

Prohibiting the use of the first person pronoun doesn't keep students from writing subjectively.