Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness

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Data-driven Summarization of Scientific Articles (2018, background): “Scientific articles are potentially more challenging to summarize than news articles because of their compact, inexplicit discourse style (Biber and Gray, 2010).”
Phrasal complexity in academic writing: A comparison of abstracts written by graduate students and expert writers in applied linguistics (2018, background): “A number of studies (e.g., Biber & Clark, 2002; Biber & Gray, 2010; Biber, Gray & Ponpoon, 2011) have found academic writing to be characteristically dense with non-clausal phrases and complex noun phrases, while at the same time reporting a relative absence of clausal elaboration.”
Discourse Characteristics of Writing and Speaking Task Types on the "TOEFL iBT"® Test: A Lexico-Grammatical Analysis. "TOEFL iBT"® Research Report. TOEFL iBT-19. Research Report. RR-13-04. (2013, background): “For example, recent research on grammatical complexity in spoken and written registers (e.g., Biber, 2009; Biber & Gray, 2010; Biber, Gray, & Poonpon, 2011) has shown that oral registers are characterized by frequent use of verbs, adverbs, pronouns, and finite dependent clauses.”