structuring ideas

Hi everybody!
Hope you had a very happy Easter!! :)
As you can see I did actually nothing in my blog during this little holiday. I just wandered around with friends, ate a lot of eggs and laid down in my bed! Not that I'm proud of it, but, you know... :) So, now it's time to concentrate!
I have just read the text about how to get a proper structure for a text and I agree with the idea that complex writing is never a good choice. Reflecting about my own way of writing I noticed that, when drafting a formal text both in Italian and in other languages, I am unconsciously driven to look for complicate and pretentious frames, syntax or words. I really do not understand if this is due to my innate proneness to hermetic forms of word art or to years and years of Italian writing education; however, it is quite clear that my mind gets automatically into complexity and avoids simplicity as if it was an horrible monster! I guess whether my obscureness is good or evil depends mainly on the context I'm writing within. At high school, the more our essays were written in a complex language, the higher marks were to be; on the other hand, when I was drafting my first-level dissertation, I was surprised by the professor's corrections on my "too prolix" English style. Moreover, what came out of my reading of academic or specialized texts was that I realized that the best ones were those that gave me useful information easily and quickly: you can be proud of quoting a famous researcher in your thesis, but what is that for if you cannot even get the main meaning of his work?
As Sarah suggested, I analysed my past blog posts: I surprisingly found that they are quite well-structured! Most of them can be easily divided into the three main parts a text should be formed by: introduction, body and conclusion. Apart from some initial colloquial sentences, my texts generally follow a coherent stream of ideas, often well-explained and supported. I have also used a quite good paragraphing order. What most surprised me was that I don't remember of any previous planning of my pieces of work. I just wrote what I had to say without paying too much attention on the global frame of the texts. I think this means that I have acquired a discrete competence in writing! (I am still not so sure anyway...) Perhaps my next step to improve my writing skills would be to become conscious of the way I'm working so that I can gain a complete control over my results.
Concerning academic blogs I visited, I can say almost all of them are made of well-structured and effective pieces of writing, whose contents are clearly well-arranged within a logical and critical flow of ideas. Obviously, my posts have nothing to do with them as far as coherence, cohesiveness and style is concerned: my language and structures are still too basic to reach their achievements. Moreover, our blogs are meant to be an exchange between peers, not to spread information to a large public; therefore, our style and contents cannot be compared with so precise and specialized texts. After all, I still believe that what mainly determines if a text is well-written or not are its effects on the reader: simplicity of thoughts and styles can be often much more of impact than high-tone turns of phrases.