Identifying Paragraph With Adequate And Inadequate Cohesion

A.   THE WAY WRITE PARAGRAPH WITH ADEQUATE AND INADEQUATE COHESION :

1)      Fixing the main idea or topic sentences.

2)      Making supporting sentences that support the main idea or topic sentences in detail.

3)      Develop a paragraph base on supporting sentences in a paragraph.    

4)      Conclude that sentences become concluding sentences.The concluding sentences can  be summary, logical, suggestion.

5)      Revising the paragraph with added the components of cohesion like    relevance,chronological order, linking word or transition word, 

a.       repetition of keywords  become a good paragraph.

6)      The first sentences has related to the next sentences.        

B.  UNDERSTANDING of COHESION :

Cohesion is revising to make sure that your words, ideas, and paragraphs fit together. Without cohesive sentences, readers feel like they are reading a long list of unrelated ideas.  They often have trouble remembering what you said. They also have trouble understanding how these ideas connect to one another, which may mean that they don’t understand the main point in your essay.  When your writing is not cohesive, it’s very difficult to be an effective communicator.

C.  THE DEFERENCES BETWEEN COHESION AND COHERENCE

1  Cohesion

Cohesion is combination the ideas from one sentence to the next sentences in a paragraph.

It has four components, they are relevance, chronological order, linking word or transition word, repetition of key word.

2  Coherence

Coherence is arrangement of relationship the ideas stick together from one sentence to the next sentences in a paragraph. Paragraph coherence is achieved when sentences are ordered in a logical manner and when clear transitions link sentences.

The components of coherence are chronological sequence, modified chronology, spatial position of different objects, logical form of sentences.

D.   ANALYZING WITH ADEQUATE OR INADEQUATE COHESION

Any Things About Me

            Well everyone, I have any things to explaint to you all, it is real about me which can make you know more about me such as: my name, my hobby, my addres, and so on. Further, I hope you can take more adventages about all of info in this text.

            My name is Eko Yunius Setiawan, and every people always call me Eko, but there are some people who call me chibi, it is real, and actually I do not know what their reason to call me like that I just guess may be I am a cute boy. I was born in Adirejo village on 20 June 1993 now I am 20 years old, and I live in Adirejo, Jabung East Lampung. My father’s name is Sugiman, and my mother’s name is Harsi and I realy love them. I am a real handsome boy with thin beard and moustache. I have black short waved hair, pointed nose, brown skin, and I has tall body based on indonesian people, my body high is abouve 170 cm. Some times I can be a silence person, but some times I can be a funny person. And then about my education background, firstly in garden kids Adirejo, secondly is Adirejo elementary school, thirdly is Jabung Junior High School, fourthly is Pasir Sakti Senior High School, and now I have been continud my study in Muhammadiyah University of Metro, and I take English department because have big interesting with it. Furthermore about my hobby is play football, fishing, travelling etc. But, now when I have registered as undergraduate of Muhammadiyah University of Metro, when I do not have subject in my campus I am seldom to spend my spare time to gether with my friends and learn about computer. I think that’s all about me, and I hope you all can take more adventages about me.

Sentences 1

            My name is Eko Yunius Setiawan, and every people always call me Eko, but there are some people who call me chibi, it is real, and actually I do not know what their reason to call me like that I just guess may be I am a cute boy.

Explanation (categorized into cohesion)

Those sentences include of cohesion because sentences after my real name Eko Yunius Setiawan have relation with it, or still develope it.

Sentences 2

I was born in Adirejo village on 20 June 1993 now I am 20 years old, and I live in Adirejo, Jabung East Lampung. My father’s name is Sugiman, and my mother’s name is Harsi and I realy love them.

Explanation (categorized into cohesion)

It  sentences are include of cohesion because it explain of my birth day, and it contain of adverb of time and adverb of place, and the sentence after that about my age and my addres now have relation with the first sentence.

Sentences 3

I am a real handsome boy with thin beard and moustache. I have black short waved hair, pointed nose, brown skin, and I has tall body based on indonesian people, my body high is abouve 170 cm.

Explanation (categorized into cohesion)

These sentences contain of two sentences, and it is include of cohesion because the second sentence still develop the first sentence

Sentences 4

And then about my education background, firstly in garden kids Adirejo, secondly is Adirejo elementary school, thirdly is Jabung Junior High School, fourthly is Pasir Sakti Senior High School, and now I have been continud my study in Muhammadiyah University of Metro, and I take English department because have big interesting with it.

Explanation (categorized into cohesion)

These sentences include of cohesion because it use chronological order to connect each other.