“I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!”
The comic has been quoted online many times, but I had to buy an old copy of Michigan So Far on eBay to actually see the comic: https://25thandClement.com/~william/links/img/Writing-Guindo...
I (now) fondly remember getting my first English paper back as a hs freshman with an F. Shook me to my core. I had, after all, gotten into this good school as one of the select few. That was a good lesson and it's served me pretty well.