Part 1 – Developing personal academic writing style

You are right. We can infer that

1)     our writing is always evolving in accordance with our thoughts.

2)     complicated language might be difficult to read and comprehend.

3)     our writing helps us think. We may create new ideas while writing.

4)     there are certain rules we need to obey to be understood.

These conclusions lead us to a motivation with which we should write: we are writing to express and explain our ideas, our understanding of the world in order to perceive the concepts better and be able to add up our own ideas to these concepts. 

Our texts should be created for ourselves so that we can move on to thinking about the matter we discuss on a new, perhaps higher, level. We are creating new knowledge for ourselves while we write and our writing encourages us to deepen our perception of our topic.

Again, we are NOT writing to impress our academic community. We are NOT making our texts sound deliberately difficult and obscure. We are NOT writing to get published somewhere. We are writing to think about a concept thoroughly to enhance our own understanding.

With this outlook on academic writing it may be easier to study the aspects of grammar and style.