Ask HN: Are there writing guides that use the "lexical tree trimming" concept?

In The Language Instinct, Pinker writes about how clear writing only keeps very few possibilities of interpretation alive at any given moment as the reader is interpreting it word by word, whereas poor writing remains unclear until the final arrangement of words is known. At the far (worse) end of this spectrum are garden path sentences [1] which are notable for being difficult to parse while remaining grammatically correct, and having only one correct interpretation. Good sentences keep "trimming" the possible set of interpretations as they proceed, whereas bad ones do not.

Are there any writing guides that outline how to write well that use this frame? Or algorithms that could be used to evaluate the clarity of sentences/writing using this approach?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence