The past few decades have witnessed an increased scholarly interest in academic rhetoric and ways to create effective scientific text in different genres, different disciplines, and different cultures. Research has focused on various aspects of academic texts: rhetorical structure, epistemology of titles, citation practices, argumentation patterns, the use of author stance, and reader engagement markers. In these studies, personal pronouns I and we have been recognised as important markers of stance and engagement. This chapter looks at the use of I and we in a self-compiled corpus of BA theses on literature written in English and in Lithuanian by Lithuanian students. The results are compared to the use of these personal pronouns in literary research articles written by expert academic writers in their native languages (English and Lithuanian). Quantitative and qualitative approaches are employed alongside contrastive analysis to reveal the ways in which the two languages, the two genres, and different levels of expertise influence the use of personal pronouns. The results show that Lithuanian students and researchers tend to avoid personal pronouns in their writing. Lithuanian students writing in English, however, employ them to a fairly large extent and display rhetorical patterns similar to native English-speaking researchers.