Steven Pinker's _The Sense of Style_ is good at grounding style rules in the actual evolved structures of human grammar. I also recommend the left-to-right, "t

Steven Pinker's _The Sense of Style_ is good at grounding style rules in the actual evolved structures of human grammar. I also recommend the left-to-right, "topic position -> stress position" approach described in https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/the-science-of-scientific-writing https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/the-sci.... I care more about whether I am making the reader do unnecessary work than whether I am entertaining to read or whether my commas are spliced.