Can I use humor in academic writing?
Very rarely, and it depends heavily on discipline and context. A light touch occasionally works in a discussion section. In most assessed student writing the risk outweighs the benefit, because humor that does not land reads as not taking the work seriously.
This comes up on Academic Tone and Register, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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