ABSTRACT
Texts have two types of structure: conceptual structure and physical structure. An example of the former would be an argument structure: presentation of problem, tentative solution, arguments for, arguments against conclusion. The physical structure would be the parts of an article: title, summary, section head, sequence of paragraphs, inserted table, next section head, and so on. Paragraph divisions are important markers that guide the reader through the text's structure. Suppose one may find an extremely long paragraph followed by a rather short one. On inspection of the content, one can notice that the last third of the long paragraph discusses the same topic as the short paragraph. During translation, one may sometimes find that one need to make structural adjustments: change the order of sentences for example to bring out the argument; change the paragraph or sentence divisions; turn a point form list into consecutive prose or vice versa.
