Bad writing

"The truth is, most US academic prose is appalling: pompous, abstruse, claustral, inflated, euphuistic, pleonastic, solecistic, sesquipedalian, Heliogabaline, occluded, obscure, jargon-ridden, empty: resplendently dead."

-- David Foster Wallace, in Authority and American Usage

Seen on Hacker news.  See also this article on business writing.