Most people revise by rereading and fixing whatever catches the eye, which finds typos and misses structure. Named passes work because a pass hunting for exactly one thing will find that thing. Run all six on this 95-word memo — click the phrases each pass is looking for, then apply it and watch what the pass actually bought you.
The routine
There is a sixth pass and it is not optional. Verify names, numbers, dates, dosages, policy references and links. Clarity that is confidently wrong is worse than fog, because it gets acted on.
The draft
Words
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Avg sentence
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F–K grade
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Elastic words
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Human subjects
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Caught
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The clarity rubric — checked by looking at the page