Assuming that you want to write clearly, the Hemingway app is an online analytic tool that takes a simplification knife to bloated writing. I ran Monday's post through it, and you can see part of the results above. Frankly, I would have thought that my penchant for logorrheic styling would have triggered more warnings than what were generated, but maybe I'm getting better at expressing myself in my old age.
It would be interesting to see what student lab reports look like when they are run through this type of analysis...