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Finally, cohesion describes the way that ideas and sentences are linked. The use of time markers (then, once, when) has already been discussedand this is an important cohesive method. The writer of the text also uses synonyms regularly. For example, in paragraph C, the writer has to ‘address the question’, ‘examine the question’, and then ‘consider’. In paragraph D, texts, lecture notes and advice are summarised as material and source material (paragraph E). Plan in paragraph E becomes scaffold, and argument in paragraph F becomes positionand opinions.
Overall
In summary, this is a reasonably formal essay written to explain the process and methods for good essay writing. The author of the text repeatedly uses personal pronouns, modal verbs and imperatives in order to give advice and instruction to college or post-secondary students, and uses sequence as the main organizational feature. The essay content is logically organised into paragraphs, and there are a range of cohesive devices used to link the text, particularly the use of synonyms.
