Why do academic papers have so little personality?

It's something I really struggle with, reading dozens of pages on a topic that someone wrote but it feels like the writer is so detached from the subject? Why does the academy demand us to be unique and have our own approach on things, when they only accept lifeless papers? I've submitted many papers and assignments and I have always been told how unusual my writing was, because I only tend to choose topics I'm truly passionated about. I'm not getting this Master, which I have fought so hard to get the right program and scholarship to lose the one thing that led to it in first place. If I write with my mind it's never gonna accepted and I can kiss it goodbye to being published. Is there any balance I'm missing out here?

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

They are supposed to have little "personality" because they are about the topic, not author.

A proper academic report or a text-book, especially on a technical subject, intended for a serious publication should be interesting to its intended readers, but still passive. The observations, ideas, tests and conclusions are what matter, not the author's personality, no matter how passionate.

A very occasional personal phrase like "We found that..." is permissible, as shorter and smoother than "It was found that...", but the general tone is normally impersonal.

You might make and publish a significant extension to your area of knowledge, but most of your readers won't know you as a person. They will respect your work, and you, but otherwise you and most of them are strangers to each other.

If you are writing or speaking for the general public, you may have to pitch the level for an audience who is intelligent but won't necessarily have your deep background knowledge of the subject. Also you want your audience to share your enthusiasm, even be inspired, so then a less formal approach would be appropriate.

If you are lecturing to a specialist audience I think you would still deliver it in a more personal style, though at their level of prior knowledge. You are a person standing in front of other people, talking to them, not an android!