This entry is not about a paper, but a tool to diagnose and analyse writing. Of course, the first thing is to use it to analyse one own's writing (and improve it), but it's also quite interesting as a way of testing how 'readable' are papers in our field (written by others, including famous authors and scholars). I just did this with a few of the most influential papers (the Introduction section anyway), and the results are quite interesting (worrying or amusing, it depends on how serious you are about 'good writing' and how much you trust these tools to measure 'readability'). A couple of these papers were in the "Heart attack territory". Now, since these papers are widely cited and influential in my field, shall we conclude that writing in this community is not a particularly important criterion? See for yourself: http://www.writersdiet.com/WT.php
