Make your writing flow!

I have always heard that writing has to flow, otherwise readers can easily get lost in the jungle of thoughts, however beautiful they seem!

Today, I finally got hold of a technique of making this possible. And it is called Old before New. I will elaborate, but first, test yourself on this.

Because the naming power of words was distrusted by Locke, he repeated himself often. Seventeenth-century theories of language, especially Wilkins's scheme for a universal language involving the creation of countless symbols for countless meanings, had centered on this naming power. A new era in the study of language that focused on the ambiguous relationship between sense and reference begins with Locke's distrust.

How does it feel? I gave up after the second line, abstruse as the content is.
Now, read this.

Locke often repeated himself because he distrusted the naming power of words. This naming power had been central to seventeenth-century theories of language, especially Wilkins's scheme for a universal language involving the creation of countless symbols for countless meanings. Locke's distrust begins a new era in the study of language, one that focused on the ambiguous relationship between sense and reference.

Am reminded of all the GRE passages...anyways, the second passage makes comparatively very easy reading. why?

Because each sentence in the first passage begins with an unfamiliar (not introduced earlier in the passage) idea:

The naming power of words;
Seventeenth-century theories of language;
A new era in the study of language.
Look at the italicised text in the first passage.

In contrast, you will find that the second half of each sentence connects to the first half of the next sentence in the second passage. Look at the italicised text in the second passage, "naming power"...how it (the idea) repeats strategically in the sentences. That is what makes the second passage so much more readable.

Scientifically sticking to this rule will improve the art of your flow, dramatically! I wish I was taught this in my school, or maybe, I was just thrown out of class when it happened!