I recommend Steven Pinker's "the Sense of Style". He talks about some cognitive science behind why some sentences are easier to parse than others. He also mak

I recommend Steven Pinker's "the Sense of Style". He talks about some cognitive science behind why some sentences are easier to parse than others. He also makes a distinction between "classic style" and other styles like "self-conscious style" and technical jargon. The concept of "classic style" is worth it alone. It's kind of an obvious idea but once you know it, you will look at things you read a different way. It doesn't apply 100% of the time, but it almost certainly does in technical or business communication.