I write "Analogous to the above construction, we now have the following." This is stilted for a normal article, but is the expected academic style. Academics ca

I write "Analogous to the above construction, we now have the following." This is stilted for a normal article, but is the expected academic style. Academics can write well enough to reach their peers. Complaining that every academic is not good at writing (see, I did it again!) is a bit like saying that policemen are not good novelists.