Cohesion Examples

Cohesion patterns serve as one of the most important section related to grammar in discourse analysis, yet they are sometimes left unnoticed. This essay is going to take into account of those factors while analyzing the performance as well as assessing the effectiveness of the cohesive devices used in another essay of mine from Practical Grammar class. The material essay is presented as above, while this one will focus only on the most outstanding examples for the use of four cohesion aspects: reference, lexical cohesion, conjunction and collocation.

First and foremost, there is the use of reference associated with the nouns. Europe and Mediterranean can be apparently identified by readers in the introduction of the essay because they are both

Several types of conjunction appear in the essay and their examples will be listed out below. Additive conjunctions including "and", "or", "additionally" play their part as the addition to the previous point, or just to complete the details. Temportal conjunctions like "while" and "after" serve as shaping bricks to form the whole picture of the problem in Europe and connect the temporally related events into a sequence. The structure of the essay is to give two opposite arguments then highlight the more persuasive one, so the consequential and comparative conjunctions like "hence", "therefore", "in conclusion" and "but", "however", "nonetheless" assist the purpose quite well. However, the overuse of these conjunctions at the beginning of the sentences may cause a negative repetition, for example the consecutive use of two comparative ones like "nonetheless" then "however" during transition from the third paragraph to the

In fact, it contributes to the texture of the source text much more than it appears to. For example, in the introduction, the phrase "land and sea" sets up an image of the context - where the unfortunate incident occurs, or the term "death toll" can sum up the idea of a possible lengthy phrase like "total amount of people who lost their lives". In addition to the noun phrases, verb phrases also appear to give cohesion to the essay, namely "check into", "set foot on", "deal with" and "tackle the situation". Collocations involving adjectives are barely used, and there is also a misuse of parallel nouns in the conclusion. The phrase "money, accommodation and resources" does not appear to be appropriate. Therefore, collocation in use of the essay is not well-written as the former