My guess is that disciplines that are populated by smart, well-educated
people who are good readers but are nevertheless characterized by
crummy, turgid, verbose, abstruse, abstract, solecism-ridden prose, are
usually part of a discipline where the vector of meaning--as a way to get
information or opinion from me to you--versus writing, as a form of dress
or speech or style ... that signals that "I am a member of this group,"
gets thrown off.
-- David Foster Wallace. Quack This Way.