1.5 Cohesive devices

Outline of this class:

• What are the cohesive devices?
• Identify cohesive devices in writing
• Revise your writing with cohesive devices

(ppt of this course)

A. Cohesive devices:

Sample paragraph

Read this paragraph. What do you think of it? 

Check this paragraph:

• Are sentences linked to one another? How are they linked?
• Is there any word in a sentence that "links/matches" any word in the previous sentence?
• Are the words used exactly the same, similar or completely different?
• How does each sentence begin? With new information or old information?

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Two common problems:

Fragments

Run-on sentences

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To make this paragraph better, we need words and phrases that link ideas and move the writing forward in some form of logical order.

B. Types of cohesive devices:

reference

transition

coordinating conjunctions

subordination

word-level cohesive devices
chart of conjunctions and transitional words

C. Exercise:

Sample paragraph

Revise this paragraph with cohesive devices. (You may copy and paste it in a new word document)

D. Homework:

Revise your diagnostic essay. Fix all fragments and run-on sentences to make it more cohesive.