Great defense of academic writing here:

“Academic writing has taken quite a bashing since, well, forever, and that’s not entirely undeserved. Academic writing can be pedantic, jargon-y, solipsistic and self-important. There are endless think pieces, editorials and New Yorker cartoons about the impenetrability of academese. In one of those said pieces, “Why Academics Can’t Write,” Michael Billig explains: Throughout the social sciences, […]”

http://judgmentalobserver.com/2015/01/08/in-defense-of-academic-writing/