Oh the irony of bad writing taught.

You've been taught to believe that short sentences are childish,

Merely a first step toward writing longer sentences.

You'd like to think your education has carried you well past short sentences.

But you've been delivered into wilderness of false assumptions and bad habits,

A desert of jargon and weak constructions, a land of linguistic barbarism,

A place where it's nearly impossible to write with clarity or directness,

Without clichés or meaningless phrases.