Most complaints about unclear writing are really shape errors: reasoning forced into bullets, a comparison forced into prose, a set of steps that lost its order. Pick a specimen, pour it into each of the four shapes, and read what happens to it — then set the measure and leading yourself and watch reading effort move.
1 · The content
Four specimens from an ordinary workplace week. Each one has a shape it actually wants.
2 · The shape you pour it into
3 · White space is a setting
Watch for the tell. A paragraph that stacks conditions is a table in sentences. A paragraph of “first, next, then, finally” is a numbered list. Three or more items joined by commas and and is a bulleted list. Convert.