What is the significance of cohesien in Weciting
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Cohesion is an important feature of academic writing. It can help ensure that your writing coheres or 'sticks together', which will make it easier for the reader to follow the main ideas in your essay or report
Creating cohesion means ‘tying’ our words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs together, to create a
text where the relationships between these elements is clear and logical to the reader, giving the text
‘flow’. We create cohesion at all these levels (word, phrase, sentence and paragraph), in order to
direct our readers’ attention to the development of our argument. Following are some of the
cohesive tools you can make use of.
Repetition: use a particular word or phrase across different sentences or paragraphs,
e.g. Of course, materials development or adaptation is not the only priority for the professions in
South Africa. However, the focus on materials development is appealing because it provides a very
tangible and practical focus for speech and language therapists (Pascoe et al., 2013).
Synonyms: use a word or phrase in a later sentence which has the same or similar meaning to a
keyword in the first sentence,
e.g. The purpose of population genetics is to quantify and explain the processes generating variation
in natural populations (Vargo & Husseneder, 2011). Sociogenetic studies of eusocial insects are
generally based on the approach that the colony functions as a discrete entity within the population
Pronouns: use a pronoun to refer back to a phrase already used,
e.g. When scientific experiments do not work out as expected, they are often considered failures until
some other scientist tries them again. Those that work out better the second time around are the
ones that promise the most rewards.