Edit: Joseph Williams (who wrote
Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace,
which lukeprog mentioned in the original post) has a subtler
version of this rule:
Put at the end of your sentence the newest, the most
surprising, the most significant information: information
that you want to stress—perhaps the information that
you will expand on in your next sentence.
That’s from page 48 of his
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace,
which I think blows Strunk and White out of the water. (I
believe it’s a different book from the one lukeprog
mentioned, though if so I’m sure they cover similar
material.)
I agree. (I mistook your point.)
Edit: Joseph Williams (who wrote Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, which lukeprog mentioned in the original post) has a subtler version of this rule:
That’s from page 48 of his Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, which I think blows Strunk and White out of the water. (I believe it’s a different book from the one lukeprog mentioned, though if so I’m sure they cover similar material.)