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?

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

helenS · 36-40, F

A book or paper about linear algebra is a book or paper about linear algebra. It's not about whether the author is married or not, or whether his wife cheats on him or has big boobs. Almost anyone who is interested in the subject of linear algebra couldn't care less.
Actually we even tend to use the author's name instead of the book's name, so we say, for example, "the Ashcroft-Mermin" when we refer to those authors' solid-state physics book. There's a ton of solid state physics books, but there is only one Ashcroft-Mermin. Do you have the Ashcroft-Mermin?– Yes, over there, it's on the left shelf.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@helenS It's a matter of approach to the subject of linear algebra. Graphic expressions in 3-dimension are amazing. It's art when you inject your personal creativity in any subject.

helenS · 36-40, F

@sree251 Like this?

sree251 · 41-45, M

@helenS Yup. Imagine video creations. Do it Helen. One on linear algebra for kids at school. You could make millions.

SW-User

@helenS top should be longer and thinner entering the donut shaped!

sree251 · 41-45, M

@SW-User Are you into math also?

SW-User

@sree251 I like math but that was a sexual innuendo that Helen and I always share

Hmmm, innuendo could be a sex term as well🤔