Possibly from here? * The Science of Scientific Writing (1990) by George Gopen and Judith Swan: https://web.archive.org/web/20240120063715/https://www.american

Possibly from here? * The Science of Scientific Writing (1990) by George Gopen and Judith Swan: https://web.archive.org/web/20240120063715/https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/the-science-of-scientific-writing https://web.archive.org/web/20240120063715/https://www.ameri... They say: > In our experience, the misplacement of old and new information turns out to be the No. 1 problem in American professional writing today. […] Put in the topic position [the beginning of the sentence] the old information that links backward; put in the stress position [the end of the sentence] the new information you want the reader to emphasize. It's a useful article, that I also mentioned in this answer: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/85286/why-do-researchers-sometimes-use-extremely-complicated-english-sentences-to-conv/85472#85472:~:text=The%20other%20article%20(The%20Science%20of%20Scientific%20Writing https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/85286/why-do-re... — see also this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLPCdDp_LE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLPCdDp_LE0 of Judy Swan, one of the co-authors (the accompanying handout is https://web.archive.org/web/20170331212200/https://www.cmu.edu/student-org/pcr/media-files/pcr-sessions/swan_summary.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20170331212200/https://www.cmu.e...).