cohesion

Examples

• All

• Without this cohesion, alliance members cannot advance and might even undercut their objectives.

  Academic text (2013)

• Second-grade students scored lower on narrative and expository organization, text structure, and cohesion than third and fourth grade students.

  Academic text (2015)

• For this, the teacher gave regular lessons on cohesion links.

  Academic text (2002)

• In addition, their writing frequently lacks coherence and cohesion if they do not understand relational words.

  Academic text (1993)

• One of these characteristics is the role of connectives enabling the cohesion and coherence of the text in the reading comprehension process.

  Academic text (2015)

• Loosely structured data informally exchanged among researchers may lack the cohesion and persistence required for a citation.

  Academic text (2013)

• To explore age-related changes in narrative discourse production, measures of lexical, syntactic, cohesion, coherence, and story grammar performance have been analyzed.

  Academic text (2011)

• Likewise, thematic and semantic redundancy is the glue that maintains cohesion within the extreme fragmentation of Terra Nostra's narration.

  Academic text (2003)

• Good cohesion in a paragraph helps the reader understand the main idea clearly.

• The cohesion between the sentences makes the text easier to follow.

Synonyms

C

coherence

vscohesion

16 6.7

Being connected and logical so parts form one whole

focuses on the specific linking of words and structures inside sentences

C

cohesiveness

vscohesion

6 4.9

How well things stick together to form one whole

describes how words and structures are linked to hold a text together

C

coherency

vscohesion

1 6.5

A clear, logical order that makes ideas or parts fit together

highlights the actual linking devices that join parts within a text

C

colligation

vscohesion

• Archaic

9.9

A joining of ideas or words so they form a connected whole

focuses on how words and structures link within a text to create meaning

Antonyms

I

incoherence

5 7.3

Speech or writing that is unclear and hard to follow

D

disjointedness

1 7.7

Lack of clear connection or order that makes something hard to follow

Compounds

G

grammatical cohesion

• Specialized

6.3

A way sentences connect using grammar like pronouns and conjunctions

How Cohesive

unity

6 3.1

coherence

16 6.7

cohesion

• Specialized

1 5.8

disconnection

9 4.2

disjointedness

1 7.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology