As noted, the definitive publication on RST is an article in the journal Text volume 8, number 3. It was based on a research report from USC Information Sciences Institute, ISI/RS-87-190. This document is no longer available from USC.

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Item, with Report page number	Topic and Link
Title Page	title page
Table of Contents - v.	toc 1
Table of Contents - vi.	toc 2
Page 1	Abstract
Page 2	Introduction
Page 3	Structure Definitions
Page 4	Terms, Relations
Page 5	contd.
Page 6	contd.
Page 7	contd.
Page 8	Relation Definitions
Page 9	Organization Table
Page 10	Evidence, Justify
Page 11	Antithesis
Page 12	contd.
Page 13	Concession
Page 14	contd.
Page 15	contd.
Page 16	Span Order
Page 17	Relation Types
Page 18	Functionalism
Page 19	Findings
Page 20	Relational Properties
Page 21	contd.
Page 22	Begin Large Analysis
Page 23	(Syncom Text)
Page 24	contd.
Page 25	Result (The Analysis is more readable)
Page 26	Multiple Analyses
Page 27	(Effects in text)
Page 28	Ambiguity, Simultaneous Analyses
Page 29	Differences Between Analysts
Page 30	contd.
Page 31	Nuclearity
Page 32	discovering Nuclearity
Page 33	contd.
Page 34	Discontinuous Parts
Page 35	Multinuclear
Page 36	contd.
Page 37	Functionality of Nuclearity
Page 38	Relation to Prior work
Page 39	Interclausal Relation Precedents
Page 40	Grimes and related work
Page 41	Grimes contd.
Page 42	Grosz and Sidner
Page 43	G & S contd.
Page 44	G & S contd.
Page 45	Martin's Conjunctive Relations
Page 46	Jordan, Conclusions
Page 47	Conclusions contd.
Page 48	Appendix 1 begins:
Page 49	Relation
Page 50	Definitions
Page 51	with
Page 52	discussion
Page 53	of
Page 54	the
Page 55	examples.
Page 56	contd.
Page 57	Cause relations
Page 58	contd.
Page 59	contd.
Page 60	contd.
Page 61	contd.
Page 62	contd.
Page 63	contd.
Page 64	contd.
Page 65	Condition
Page 66	contd.
Page 67	contd.
Page 68	contd.
Page 69	Interpretation
Page 70	Evaluation
Page 71	Restatement
Page 72	Summary
Page 73	Multi Nuclear relations
Page 74	contd.
Page 75	Contrast
Page 76	contd.
Page 77	contd.
Page 78	An Appendix on Terminology
Page 79	contd., References
Page 80	contd.
Page 81	contd.
Page 82	contd.
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Note also that although the full report was expected to appear in an edited book, The Structure of Discourse, edited by Livia Polanyi, that book was never published. It should not be referenced.