Is the following text cohesive?
Explain your answer ..
The National examination result will
be publicly enounced in next short time. Euphoria will flood for those who get
success. In the other hand, It will be sorry to hear that there are some of
them do not succeed in their national final examination. For those who succeed
soon will think to decide; where will they be after graduating high school?
Actually it will be easy to decide for those has been arranged and thought
earlier but for those have not planed yet, it will be quite confusing.
Continuing study or looking for work
is the primary choice among them. When they think about continuing study, they
will think hard about the time and cost. How long the higher study will last?
And how high is about the cost. In the same way, when they think about
straightly seeking job, what skill and competence they have got is a big matter
of questioning. So, doing both choices in the same time is an alternative.
Continuing study as well as seeking job is possibly done but it will be hard for them. Conventionally studying in the university needs much time to spend especially in the first year. It is true because they have to do and adapt a lot of things in their new higher school. it will be very hard to looking for job. Therefore it should come to their mind of continuing studying at higher school from their own home. As result, the available time will be more flexible for them. Then it will be very possible to seek job and get the appropriate one. This type of studying is publicly known as distance learning.
As the alternative method of
studying, besides the conventional studying which students and the lecturer
have to meet in the fixed time and place regularly, distance learning provides
possibility to grow better. Possibly working and studying surely will create
high quality graduate. Distance learning should appear as a considerable choice
for them.
Cohesion is
"the glue that sticks a sentence to another in a paragraph or a paragraph
to another in a text."
A text can
be cohesive through the use of the following devices:
- Repetition. In sentence B (the
second of any two sentences), repeat a word from sentence A.
- Synonymy. If direct repetition
is too obvious, use a synonym of the word you wish to repeat. This
strategy is call 'elegant variation.'
- Antonymy. Using the 'opposite'
word, an antonym, can also create sentence cohesion, since in language
antonyms actually share more elements of meaning than you might imagine.
- Parallelism. Repeat a sentence
structure. This technique is the oldest, most overlooked, but probably the
most elegant method of creating cohesion.
- Transitions. Use a conjunction
or conjunctive adverb to link sentences with particular logical
relationships. There are many kinds of transitions.
Coherence
means that the text is easy to read and understand because the text follows a
certain kind of logical order and the organization of ideas is systematical and
logical.
Some kinds
of logical order: chronological
order, spatial order, order of importance
The answers
here are good, but examples are missing. Example of a coherent text that is not cohesive:
Summer was over. The boy went to school. The
building: Peter had never liked it. All the other class members became easy
targets of the lawmaker's son's gun. At 8:15 the massacre began. 7 children
would not go home. The last words of the juvenile perpetrator: "I hate
Mondays".
Example of a cohesive text that is not
coherent:
You may not fully understand the reasons
underlying the incident, so let me try to explain. Namely, it may help your
understanding to know that Peter had not been happy about the oranges, after
all. Nor was the other Peter ever again able to fly after the aforementioned
fruity explanation. Then, weeks later, he realised that it was because my fruit
and wings rationale is lacking in substance. If that is all, you may find it
hard to get the point of what I'm driving at. Nevertheless, I think it was
worth trying to explain.
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