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    Coherence, cohesion & unity

    coherence
    • The way the text makes sense to the reader
    through the relevance of concepts and ideas.
    • Sentences follow each other logically; they are
    not isolated thoughts. 
    How to achieve coherence?
    • First, using transitions helps connect ideas
    from one sentence to the next.
    • Transitional words and phrases are used to
    order ideas – by time, cause, or other relation.
    • They alert the reader that the course of the
    paper is about to change.
    How to achieve coherence?
    • Second, ordering thoughts in numerical
    sequence helps to direct the reader from one
    point to the next.
    • Third, structuring each paragraph according to
    one of the following patterns helps to organize
    sentences: general to particular; particular to
    general; whole to parts; question to answer;
    or effect to cause. 
    Coherence
    in other words
    • Coherence makes the paragraph easily understandable to a reader.
    You can help create coherence in your paragraphs by connecting
    one sentence to another using:
    • Parallel constructions
    • Pronouns
    • Synonyms
    • Repetition of key words
    • Transitional words
    • Systematic sentence organization (see adequate development):
    from general to specific, from specific to general, order of
    importance, chronological order, space order, steps, cause – effect,
    comparison and contrasts.
    Cohesion

    • The grammatical and lexical relationship


    between elements in the text.
    • A paragraph or section of text is cohesive if
    the sentences are well structured, well linked
    together and there is no unnecessary
    repetition
    Cohesion
    • Cohesion is the glue that holds a piece of
    writing together. In other words, if a paper is
    cohesive, it sticks together from sentence to
    sentence and from paragraph to paragraph.
    • Cohesive devices include:
    - Reference - Ellipsis
    - Substitution - Repetition
    - Connectors - Synonymy
    Cohesion
    Cohesion
    Cohesion

    • Repetition of Key Words


    • We can tie sentences or paragraphs together
    by repeating certain key words from one
    sentence to the next or from one paragraph to
    the next. This repetition of key words also
    helps to emphasize the main idea of a piece of
    writing. For example, in the following
    paragraph, notice how many times the words
    owned and ownership are repeated:
    Cohesion
    Cohesion
    • By repeating the words owned and ownership
    throughout the paragraph, the writer has tied
    each sentence to each other and has clearly
    indicated what the main idea of the paragraph
    is. In this case, the main idea is ownership of
    something. And what exactly is being (or not
    being) owned? By repeating the word land,
    the author shows us that the entire main idea
    is ownership of land
    Cohesion and coherence
    • In other words,
    • a text is cohesive if its elements are linked
    together, and coherent if it makes sense.
    These are not necessarily the same thing. That
    is, a text may be cohesive (i.e. linked
    together), but incoherent (i.e. meaningless).
    Example
    • I am a teacher. The teacher was late for class.
    Class rhymes with grass. The grass is always
    greener on the other side of the fence. But it
    wasn't.
    • This is an example of a cohesive paragraph but
    not a coherent one.
    • The sentences are grammatically linked
    together but they don’t make sense.
    Unity

    • An essay has unity if it deals with one main


    idea.

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