To their defense, a lot of academic papers even from native English speakers tend to have barely readable convoluted wording here and there. Either for the purp

To their defense, a lot of academic papers even from native English speakers tend to have barely readable convoluted wording here and there. Either for the purpose of making it sound more complicated or to pad the length of the paper, I have no idea. But it is something I have been consciously noticing since a while ago.