Write from a general person’s perspective
Rather than writing from your own perspective, write as if you are a person relating to your topic. For instance, say you are writing about a descriptive piece on what happens in an abattoir (where animals are slaughtered for meat). If you are a vegetarian, this topic might repulse you or even make you feel physically sick.
To help yourself write in an objective manner, try writing as if you are a general person reading the piece. If you were writing a personal perspective, you might write something like:
Whilst this may accurately represent what you think, it is not objective. First of all, rewrite from the perspective of a general person:
However, this still contains some of your own opinion - you’re saying that readers are ‘bound’ to feel the same way that you do. You can make it more objective by making the reader’s reaction possible rather than certain, and softening the word ‘revolted’:
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