Can I use rhetorical questions?
Rarely, in most academic writing. They work in some disciplines and in speech. In a written argument they usually delay the point, and a section that opens with one often reads as avoiding a direct claim.
This comes up on Academic Writing Style, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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