Cohesion in academic writing Flashcards

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to do with how actual texts are held together lexically and grammatically

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Cohesion

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flow of sentences and paragraphs from one to another. It involves the tying together of old information and new

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Cohesion

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Deals with the overall quality of a work on a macro level

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Cohesion

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4
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Two strategies for achieving cohesion​

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Grammatical Cohesion and Lexical Cohesion

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involves the use of cohesive devices such as pronouns, conjunctions, and ellipsis to link sentences together. These devices serve to maintain continuity and coherence within the text (Halliday & Hasan, 1976).​

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Grammatical Cohesion

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relies on the semantic relationships between words and phrases to establish connections between sentences or paragraphs

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Lexical Cohesion

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This uses what type of grammatical cohesion: “I went to the store and bought some fruit. The apples were fresh, but the bananas were overripe. I returned them.”​ ____ refers back to bananas

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Reference ; them

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This uses what type of grammatical cohesion: “She brought her laptop to the meeting, but he forgot his.”​ his refers to _____

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Substitution; laptop

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This uses what type of grammatical cohesion: “She can speak French; he, Spanish.”​ what verb is committed in the second sentence?

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Ellipsis; can speak

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Two types of conjunctions

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Temporal conjunctions and Casual Conjunctions

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These: As, before, meanwhile, are what example of conjunctions

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Temporal Conjunctions

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These type of conjunctions link events or actions in time

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Temporal conjunctions

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These types of conjunctions indicate a cause-effect relationship that gives the reason or why

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Casual conjunctions

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These types of conjunctions are used: because, consequently, due

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Casual conjunctions

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15
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5 types of lexical cohesion

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Repetition
Synonymy
Hypnonymy/hypernymy
Meronymy/ Holonymy
Collocation

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16
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Using the same word over again, but not restricted to the same morphological form: ​

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Repetition

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Demonstrates how some words can be used interchangeably to convey similar meanings in different contexts

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Synonymy

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refer to the super- and subordinate relationships between words.

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Hyponymy/ Hypernymy

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Words in the superordinate level

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Hypernyms

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words in the subordinate level

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Hyponyms

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Hyponymy / hypernymy: Animals

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Hypernym

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Hyponymy/ hypernymy: dogs

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hyponymy

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a semantic relation between denoting a part and denoting a whole.

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Meronymy and holonymy

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Meronymy/ holonymy: Head

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Holonymy

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Meronymy/ holonymy: Eyes and faces

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Meronymy

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Depends upon the tendency of some words to co-occur in texts.​

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Collocation

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what lexical cohesion: The noun bicycle could more likely occur with the verb to ride then any random verb.​

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Collocation

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