This powerpoint helped during the interview process at St. Petersburg College.

13. “A paper containing sentences of one short pattern bores
both the writer and the reader for two reasons:
 Repetition of a single, simple sentence pattern draws attention
to itself, not to the ideas in the paper.
 Simple, short sentences cannot show the reader the many
relationships that exist among ideas of different importance.”
From: The Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers: Seventh Edition