1: On analysing and evaluating written text / Malcolm Coulthard.- 2: Trust the text / John McH. Sinclair.- 3: Signalling in discourse: a functional analysis of a common discourse pattern in written and Spoken English / Michael Hoey.- 4: Clause relations as information structure: two basic text structures in English / Eugene Winter. 5: Predictive categories in expository text / Angele Tadros.- 6: Labelling discourse: an aspect of nominal-group lexical cohesion / Gill Francis.- 7: The text and its message / Tim Johns.- 8: The analysis of fixed expressions in text / Rosamund Moon.- 9: The construction of knowledge and value in the grammar of scientific discourse, with reference to Charles Darwin´s The Origin of Species / M. A. K. Halliday.- 10: Frames of reference: contextual monitoring and the interpretation of narrative discourse / Catherine Emmott.- 11: Inferences in discourse comprehension / Martha Shiro.- 12: Narratives of sciencie and nature in popularizing molecular genetics / Greg Myers.- 13: Evaluation and organization in a sample of written academic discourse / Susan Hunston. 14: Genre analysis: an approach to text analysis for ESP / Tony Dudley-Evans. 15: On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals / Peter H. Fries.- 16: Negatives in written text / Adriana Pagano.- 17: It, this and that / Michael McCarthy.- 18: The structure of newspaper editorials / Adriana Bolívar.- 19: On reporting reporting: the representation of speech in factual and factional narratives / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard.

The focus of the individual papers varies from single words and individual expressions through the patterning of clauses to the organization of paragraphs, sections and whole texts.