cohesion and cohesive in writing

1. DEVELOPING A PARAGRAPH
( COHESION AND COHERENT
)
3RD MEETING
Presented by :
Iin Widya Lestari, M.Pd.

2. COHERENCE
A piece of writing or
paragraph can be
categorizied as coherence if
it is clearly organized and it
has a logical sequence of
ideas.

3. • A text is coherence when it makes sense.
• It makes sense when:
• We can understand what the text is about.
• We can translate it.
• We can paraphrase it.
• We can summarize it.
• We can explain the meaning to someone else.
COHERENCE

4. •Coherence is enhanced if...
the reader can
easily
understand
what the text is
about
the text is
organized in a
way that
answers the
reader’s
questions
the text is
organized in a
way that is
familiar to the
reader
COHERENCE

5. The following paragraphs represent weak and strong examples of
coherence.
EXAMPLE COHERENCE
PARAGRAPHS:

6. Coherence
• Example of an incoherent text
He worked hard but earned little money and died very
poor at the age of 35. Two years later his father took
him to play at concerts in the great cities of Europe
Does it make sense?

7. • Another example...
Coherence
The Austrian composer Mozart was a musical genius. He
has got a swimming pool. It actually tingles on your skin to
tell you it’s working. Water would then come out of fountains
such as the one shown here. And that is why dogs still
chase rabbits.
Is it coherent?
A TEXT CAN BE COHERENT IF IT
MUST REFER TO THE SAME TOPIC

9. COHESION
A paragraph or section of text is
cohesive if the sentences are well
structured, well linked together and
there is no unnecessary repetition.

10. 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 certainly include:
-Reference - Ellipsis
-Substitution - Repetition
COHESION

11. COHESION

12. COHESION

13. 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

14. COHESION

15. 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