Mann, William C. and Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen (1991). "Functions of language in two frameworks." Word 42 (3): 231-249.

Mann, William C., Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen and Sandra A. Thompson (1992). Rhetorical Structure Theory and Text Analysis. Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text . ed. by W. C. Mann and S. A. Thompson. Amsterdam, John Benjamins: 39-78.

Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson, 1983, Relational Propositions in Discourse, ISI: Information Sciences Institute of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, ISI/RR-83-115, 1-28.

Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson, 1986, Rhetorical Structure Theory: description and construction of text structures, Information Sciences Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, ISI/RS-86-174, 1-15.

Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (1987a). Antithesis:A Study in Clause Combining and Discourse Structure. Language topics: Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday . ed. by R. Steele and T. Threadgold. Amsterdam, John Benjamins. II: 359-384.

Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (1987b). "Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Framework for the Analysis of Texts." IPRA Papers in Pragmatics 1: 1-21.

Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson, 1987c, Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Theory of Text Organization, ISI: Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ISI/RS-87-190, 1-81. Reprinted from The Structure of Discourse, L. Polanyi, ed. (This book did not actually appear, and the article later appeared in Text 8(3).).

Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (1988). "Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization." Text 8 (3): 243-281.

Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson, Eds. (1992a). Discourse Description: Diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text. Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.

Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (1992b). Relational Discourse Structure: A Comparison of Approaches to Structuring Text by 'Contrast'. Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre . ed. by S. J. Hwang and W. R. Merrifield. Dallas, SIL: 19-45.

Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M. and Sandra A. Thompson (1987). The Structure of Discourse and "Subordination". Clause Combining in Discourse and Grammar, ed. by J. Haiman and S. A. Thompson. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.

Thompson, Sandra A. and William C. Mann (1986). A Discourse View of Concession in Written English. Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference, ed. by S. Delancy and R. Tomlin, Pacific Linguistics Conference. 2 .