Yeah, this happens in writing too. Steven Pinker has a great name for it: "self-conscious style" (in the book The Sense of Style). That's where you insert yourself into the text in a way that's irrelevant to the subject matter.
He instead advocates that you write in "classic style", which is basically talking about X, as you say. There is something in the world, and I am going to show it through words.
He also talks about the "academic style" of writing, and has some funny examples of it. One big part of that is obscuring the prose so that you can never be proven wrong.
He instead advocates that you write in "classic style", which is basically talking about X, as you say. There is something in the world, and I am going to show it through words.
He also talks about the "academic style" of writing, and has some funny examples of it. One big part of that is obscuring the prose so that you can never be proven wrong.