<span>Academic writing can be written in first person and contain personal opinions.
This is true because in academic writing, you may state your own personal opinions about a subject or an issue. Academic writing is a freedom in writing about your own personal perspective and view of the subject with ofcourse the right kind of sources and statements.</span>
Entertaining
At your aunt's retirement party, you would want to give a fun, entertaining speech incorportating a story about your aunt.
At a retirement party, you don't need to persuade anyone to do anything, since you knew about the retirement party, you would have planned a speech (so it would not be extemporanous and done spontasiously) and there's no need to inform anyone of anything at a retirement party.
D) Change the phrase "shooting the breeze" because it is too informal and cannot be understood literally.
