Cohesion

Writing down details and adding applicable quotations and evidence to back up your ideas may be easy to do, and it may even be easy to construct it in the correct way with topic sentences, follow on ideas and examples and summarising sentences all in the proper place, but without the use of proper connecting devices, the written piece will not flow well and will be difficult to read, follow and be interested in. There are four main ways to make your writing cohesive.

The first, and already mentioned, is to have a carefully formatted piece of writing, using all of the techniques outlined in the writing page. But this will only help give you a good logical format for ideas and premises. To make the reading of these ideas smooth, we need to join them using discourse markers; link them by using parallel structures; and refer back to them using pronouns; or repetition or variation of words and/or phrases.