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    Cohesion refers to the use of linguistic devices that connect different parts of a text to guide readers and show how the parts relate to each other. Cohesion is achieved when writers connect the organized parts of their arguments with clear and numerous signals, such as transitional words and phrases, to make the development of their cases intelligible and lead readers along the merging lines of their arguments. Together, cohesion and register contribute to textuality, the sense that something is a text and not a random collection of sentences. Cohesion gives readers clues for discovering coherence within a text.

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    Cohesion refers to the use of linguistic devices that connect different parts of a text to guide readers and show how the parts relate to each other. Cohesion is achieved when writers connect the organized parts of their arguments with clear and numerous signals, such as transitional words and phrases, to make the development of their cases intelligible and lead readers along the merging lines of their arguments. Together, cohesion and register contribute to textuality, the sense that something is a text and not a random collection of sentences. Cohesion gives readers clues for discovering coherence within a text.

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    Cohesion refers to the use of linguistic devices that connect different parts of a text to guide readers and show how the parts relate to each other. Cohesion is achieved when writers connect the organized parts of their arguments with clear and numerous signals, such as transitional words and phrases, to make the development of their cases intelligible and lead readers along the merging lines of their arguments. Together, cohesion and register contribute to textuality, the sense that something is a text and not a random collection of sentences. Cohesion gives readers clues for discovering coherence within a text.

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    LINGUISTIC GRAMMATICAL COHESION Cohesion is the use of transitional expressions and other devi es to !

    uide readers and sho" ho" the parts of a o#position relate to one other$ The %i! parts of a stor& should sti ' to!ether( %ut the s#all parts need so#e "ords or phrases to sti ' to!ether as "ell$ )hen the %i! parts fit( "e all that !ood feelin! oheren e* "hen senten es onne t( "e all it ohesion$ )hen is ohesion said to %e a hieved+ Cohesion is a hieved "hen "riters onne t their or!ani,ed parts "ith suffi ientl& lear and nu#erous si!nals--li'e the "ords .finall&( .thus(. .ho"ever(.--to #a'e the develop#ent of their ases intelli!i%le and to lead the reader safel& alon! the #er!in! lines of their ar!u#ents$ /or a s&ste#ati and o#prehensive understandin! of a text or senten e( "ritin! #ust have not onl& oheren e( an effe tive desi!n( %ut ohesion( an expli it set of .hoo's. and .ties. that ensure a reader.s interest and o#prehension$ Coheren e is the 'ind of holdin! to!ether that a !ood desi!n "ill !ive an& dis ourse( "hether "ritten or spo'en$ Cohesion is the result of !ivin! readers the ri!ht 'ind of expli it help in fi!urin! out the desi!n$ Cohesion !ives readers the lues for dis overin! oheren e$ In lin!uisti s( Cohesion is the use of lan!ua!e for#s to indi ate se#anti relations %et"een ele#ents in a dis ourse$ Gra##ati al ohesion on erns su h #atters as referen e( ellipsis( su%stitution( and on0un tion$ Lexi al ohesion on erns su h features as s&non&#&( anton&#( #eton&#&( ollo ation( repetition( et $ Another t&pe of Cohesion 'no" as Instantial ohesion( on erns ties that are valid onl& for a parti ular text$ To!ether( ohesion and re!ister ontri%ute to textualit&( the sense that so#ethin! is a text and not a rando# olle tion of senten es$ The Coheren e 1rin iple a ounts for the fa t that "e do not o##uni ate %& ver%al #eans onl&$ The traditional on ept of oheren e( "hi h is solel& %ased relationships %et"een ver%al textual ele#ents( is too narro" to a ount for oheren e in intera tion$ Ulti#atel&( oheren e in intera tion is not esta%lished in the text %ut reated in the #inds of the interlo utors in their atte#pt to #a'e sense of the different ver%al( per eptual( and o!nitive #eans at their disposal $ (Edda Weigand, Language as Dialogue: From Rules to Principles. John Benjamins, !!"#.

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