It comes from writing teachers who are too hung up on sentence structure. You know, verbs, nouns, subjects, all that technical stuff. Use my phone. What you need is lists. Like Letterman does.
Papers always feel obligated to put in announcements of award winners.
We already have a lot of awards, Woody. What we don't have is a place for you to stay. Relax, I'll use the couch in your basement. Don't make a fuss over me. Listen, I roughed out some stuff you could use right away, kind of like mid-year awards.