Proposing a comprehensive model of cohesive devices to investigate the quality of students’ academic writing

Year 2019, , 105 - 111, 01.04.2019

Emad A. S. Abu-ayyash

https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.505365

Abstract

The majority of the studies that
analysed the use of cohesive devices relied on Halliday and Hasan’s (1976)
model, which was acknowledged to be the most comprehensive model of cohesion.
Reviewing the previous studies has revealed that research has fallen short of
analysing the links between the text and the contextual world, including
culture, for example. This paper introduces the concepts of the cohesive
devices based on the 1976 model with reference to examples from English and Arabic.
Then, the paper builds on the 1976 model and expands it based on suggestions
proposed by different authors, and introduces the new tool: construction-based
cohesion.

 

Keywords

cohesive devices, text cohesion, text analysis, discourse analysis, a comprehensive model of cohesion

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