Coherence and Cohesion – What Does it REALLY Mean?

In this week's video lesson, I'm going to teach you about Coherence and Cohesion. To be honest, this might be a difficult lesson for many of you to understand, but it is important information and I think you will be quite surprised.

Most people tend to think of Coherence and Cohesion as being a matter of structure, but this is a little reductive. In fact, it is about much more than that. I'm going to analyse the band descriptors for you in order to break CC down into 5 separate parts: organisation, progression, cohesive devices, referencing, and paragraphing.

I'm also going to talk about how there are some more complicated factors like overlap with other parts of the marking rubric. I will try to back all of this up with evidence (from a study supported by IELTS) and I will try to show everything clearly with examples.

Coherence and Cohesion is a vast and difficult topic, but understanding it could really help you to get a better score. If you've spent a lot of time studying IELTS but see little improvement in your grade, it might be partly because your writing features problems in one of the abovementioned 5 areas.

In this video, I mentioned a few sources of information that may be useful or interesting to you:

The study that I cited twice: https://www.ielts.org/-/media/researc...
Shelly Cornick's ebook: https://blog.myieltsclassroom.com/iel...
My own article on cohesive devices: https://ted-ielts.com/cohesive-devices/
My book, How to Write the Perfect Essay for IELTS: https://ted-ielts.com/books
IELTS band descriptions for task 2: https://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/...
IELTS band descriptions for task 1: https://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/...

As always, I have divided this lesson into chapters, which you can see below. Use these to skip forward or backwards to study more effectively.

00:00 Introduction
01:12 What is Coherence and Cohesion?
03:00 Taking a Closer Look at Coherence and Cohesion
05:12 Organisation
07:08 Progression
08:47 Cohesive Devices
11:59 Referencing
13:56 Paragraphing
16:06 Overlap with Other Criteria
18:08 Conclusions

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