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Coherence factors: Formatting

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Layout of the text

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Coherence factors: Logical ordering

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Presenting of the texts info in a reasonable sequence

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Coherence factors: Inference

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Use of inference

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Coherence factors: Conventions

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Heeding the conventions of the context

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Coherence factors: Consistency

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Being consistent allows for it to be coherent

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Coherence

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How meaningful and understandable a text is (FLICC)

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Cohesion factors: Substitution

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Replace one element with something else, avoid repetition

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Cohesion factors: Ellipsis

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Emitting parts of a sentence to avoid repetition

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Cohesion factors: Linking

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Adverbials and conjunctions

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Cohesion factors: Lexical choices

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Semantic field, repetition, collocation, synonyms

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Cohesion factors: Reference

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When a pronoun refers to another element of the text

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Features of discourse: Openings and closings

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Signals beginning and end of conversation

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Features of discourse: Adjacency pairs

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Words or phrases that work together to create relevant discourse

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Features of discourse: Overlapping speech

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Speech that overlaps

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Features of discourse: Interrogative tags

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Tag questions added onto the end

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Features of discourse: Discourse particles

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Things like “mmmm” or “yeah” when being talking to

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Features of discourse: Non-fluency features

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Include pauses, filled pauses (um), false starts, repetition

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Strategies in discourse: Topic management

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Keeping conversation on topic

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Strategies in discourse: Turn-taking

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Taking turns

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Strategies in discourse: Code-switching

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Switching languages or dialects

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Strategies in discourse: Back channelling

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Providing minimal responses to the speaker

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Cohesion

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How elements of utterances fit together and align with one another (SELLY)

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