[07121941]

The college writing style is lazy. It's not about avoiding flowery language or cutting sentence length.

It's laziness. It tells me you don't have any opinions of your own.

Anyone can learn to write like that and it'll get the job done if you're writing an essay the night before.

I personally despise it because it's something out of nothing.

Used a lot when you're trying not to incriminate yourself or say anything of substance.