If academic writing is obese, business writing is anorexic. Both unhealthy, but in different ways. My metaphor breaks down here for a second, but what I think

If academic writing is obese, business writing is anorexic. Both unhealthy, but in different ways. My metaphor breaks down here for a second, but what I think they share in common is laziness of language. In my experience, the scholar is too lazy to avoid convoluted sentences with thousand-pound meanings that take more work to read than they did to assemble. The business-writer is too lazy to anchor words that are lighter than air to sentences with substance to keep them grounded.