personal pronoun
every time I write thank you in an academic letter it tells me
"Review this sentence for personal pronouns The personal pronoun, “you”, may not be appropriate for formal writing. Consider removing this pronoun, and rephrasing your sentence. Formal writing should be impersonal, so personal pronouns – possessive or otherwise- are generally not used. Personal pronouns (i.e. I, you, we, my, mine, your, yours, our, ours) assume the information in your writing applies only to specific readers. By using impersonal pronouns (he, she, one, they, his, him, her, one’s, their), any reader may make their own personal connections to the information being discussed. Hint: replace you, I and we with one, and replace my, mine, yours and ours with one’s."
my sentence was
Dr. Cohen thank you for your input and explaining the process.
Any ideas ? Thanks :)
1 answer 
You can ignore it, or you can change the style the software is checking againt to either Business or Casual. You do that in the drop down box under Start Review.
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answered Oct 19 '12 at 19:43
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