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  <Title>Towards Generating Procedural Texts: an exploration of their rhetorical and argumentative structure</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Instructional texts consist of sequences of instructions designed in order to reach an objective. The author or the generator of instructional texts must follow a number of principles to guarantee that the text is of any use. Similarly, a user must follow step by step the instructions in order to reach the results expected. In this paper, we explore facets of instructional texts: general prototypical structures, rhetorical structure and natural argumentation. Our study is based on an extensive corpus study with the aim of generating such texts.</Paragraph>
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