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Whenever I write something, I take a few minutes afterwards to think about the immediate next question that a reader might have and then incorporate the answer into the writing. This works great for any documents but is especially helpful when I need to ask for help as it will sometimes even answer the question that I had in the beginning.
I started to call this "doing homework" and my intention is to save time for the reader and thus improve clarity. I need to work hard to only do this for one level, though, since it can be easy to get distracted this way.
The idea is simple: define the kind of person that your writing is for in advance. And then write only for them.