This report presents a summary of the research designed to develop a psycholinguistics of comprehension and memory for meaningful written prose paragraphs. The approach departs from most previous ones by seeking to formulate an explicit theory, instead of relying on informal qualitative judgments as to paragraph structure, the scoring of data, and the processes of comprehension and memory. The paper discusses overall methodological principles and assumptions designed to yeild as results the specific representations of paragraphs and presents a means for psycholinguistic structural analysis of the paragraph. Experiments intended to aid in perfecting the methodology are described along with results which provide an objective and complete method for scoring recall protocols. A bibliography is included. (Author/VM)