I'm as academic-leftish as they come. The CROs of the world would have you believe that that means I'm a snooty asshole, and they're right (although not for the right reasons). So speaking on behalf of my comrades--all of my comrades--there is nothing that makes a snooty asshole academic happier than teeing off on incompetent undergrad writing.

In our defense, we're doing a pretty good job teaching them in college the writing skills they should have learned by the ninth grade. A lot of us care deeply about producing well-rounded, critical-thinking educated young adults. But those first few papers of freshman comp--well, we're just sitting in our beds with a red pen in one hand and a vibrator in the other.