We live in the age of information, but not everything that is transmitted is intelligible enough to be understood. Editors of medical and scientific journals are known to complain-in print-about articles that are difficult to read. Most problems, they say, are caused not by complexity of scientific thought but by poor writing. The result is manuscripts filled with puzzling jargon and confusing construction-obstacles that cause readers either to abandon an article or to misinterpret it.

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