This depends a lot on the medium of communication. A lot of style guides recommend that they go in order of importance or relevance. I suspect different readers will have different levels of difficulty in keeping the details in mind at once, so it’s not obvious which is actually easier or “more chunkable” for them.
For instance, I find “Addida’s stock price is rising due to the decline of Kanye West’s stylistic influence”. Is that ZXY? The decline is the main point, and what is declining is one chunk “Kanye’s influence”.
You’re right. Sentences should start with the idea that is most important or foundational, and end with a transition to the next sentence’s topic. It’s best to do these two things with the XYZ structure whenever possible.
My examples ignored these other design principles to focus on the XYZ structure. Writers must make tradeoffs. Ideally, their writing occupies the sentence design Pareto frontier.
This depends a lot on the medium of communication. A lot of style guides recommend that they go in order of importance or relevance. I suspect different readers will have different levels of difficulty in keeping the details in mind at once, so it’s not obvious which is actually easier or “more chunkable” for them.
For instance, I find “Addida’s stock price is rising due to the decline of Kanye West’s stylistic influence”. Is that ZXY? The decline is the main point, and what is declining is one chunk “Kanye’s influence”.
You’re right. Sentences should start with the idea that is most important or foundational, and end with a transition to the next sentence’s topic. It’s best to do these two things with the XYZ structure whenever possible.
My examples ignored these other design principles to focus on the XYZ structure. Writers must make tradeoffs. Ideally, their writing occupies the sentence design Pareto frontier.