I think the business world is doing terrible things to communication; it is encouraging formulaic phrases over word choice, jargon over commonly-understood terms, “professionalism” over knowledge. It encourages verbing.
We all know how academia feels about verbing.
I found this nice little site about wordiness. For those of you who have been taking business communication courses - and learning the formulaic professional phrasing - this website will help with some of the scrubbing and purging required.
I don’t know that I’d go quite so far as to use the term danger signals; wordiness will only muddle the process of communication, not arrest it completely (such as the misuse of punctuation might). It’s a matter of perspective, I suppose. If your reader is reading your paper in the early evening, having sufficiently refreshed himself after a day’s work, then perhaps there won’t be any confusion. If your paper ends up being at the bottom of the pile, already tainted by the reader’s lack of sleep and wailing infant, perhaps it might warrant danger signals.
You decide. Have a look at the website and see if you’re inclined towards any of these faux pas.