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This is more of a tip than an actual answer, but it can still help you:

Short is clear, long gets you lost.

Make sure that important and critical sentences are as small as possible, and have a paragraph just for themselves. The eyes tend to roll over long, bulky paragraphs and sentences, whereas a five-word paragraph immediately catches the eye.

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