Cohesion and Coherence

What do you want to write in your conclusion?

• Summarize what the paper will be about as a whole, without giving everything away

• You want to bring in new ideas and opinions on the subject

• You want this paragraph to continue the first idea you have for the subject you are writing

• This paragraph should summarize everything in the paper while also asserting your thoughts and tying all the ideas together with a pretty bow

What are two ways to make sure your paper structure is not choppy?

• Using synonyms, and semicolons

• Using the oxford comma and proper tenses.

• Using proper grammar and changing the lengths of sentences

• Making sure all the sentences are identical and using a lot of commas

What is a good way to create a bulleted framework for your paper?

• Outlines

• Looking Forward and Back

• Cohesion

• Sentence Structure

Why do synonyms help with cohesion?

• They help keep the sentences from being choppy

• Synonyms show a large vocabulary

• Synonyms do not help

• They help because they use the same words without repetition to explain ideas, making each new idea still similar

What does it mean to look forward and back in your paper?

• It means to be aware of your sentence structure

• It means to make sure to write a cohesive outline

• It means to make sure to look back at your previous paragraph and your future paragraph idea to tie them all together properly

• It means to make sure to look back at your previous paragraph and your future paragraph idea to tie them all together properly

Why are cohesion and coherence important in a text?

• Because they make an author sound like an expert on the subject.

• Because they make the writing more understandable

• Writing is more enjoyable to create when cohesion and coherence are used.

• Writing requires descriptive language to make it understandable.

What is coherence?

• Coherence introduces new ideas in a text that have never been discussed or introduced.

• Coherence is the sound a speech makes when it is read aloud.

• Coherence is how easily the entire text is understood by the reader.

• Coherence is a writer's way of making a text less understandable to the reader.

What is cohesion?

• Cohesion is a special type of glue that writers use to make ideas stick together.

• The way in which an author uses sentence structure to make the text more understandable to the reader. This includes the way the sentences relate to each other.

• Cohesion introduces new ideas in a text.

• A special type of argument used in writing

Which is an example of coherence?

• Sentences which flow together and make sense when side by side.

• Words which cause a reader to have to use a dictionary to understand them.

• An author paying attention to how the organization of an essay might make it more understandable to the reader.

• An author using word choices that describe a image or scene.

Why might an author want his or her work to be cohesive?

• So that the individual parts of each sentence, or each of the sentences together, work to increase the reader's understanding of the material

• The author wants the entire passage to make sense in its entirety.

• The author wants his or her work to be exciting to the reader.

• So that the author can use longer passages, instead of shorter sentences.