Third Writing Assignment (COHESION VS COHERENCE)

THIRD OF WRITING ASSIGNMENT

By:
Nanda Habib Firdaus (12340020)
English Education Study Program
Muhammadiyah University of Metro

  

HOW TO WRITE PARAGRAPH WITH ADEQUATE AND INADEQUATE COHESION?

            “A good paragraph is a paragraph which including Coherence and Cohesion, Means that it has a complete components, related each other (Coherence), and built a united forming of the paragraph (Cohesion). When we would like to write a good paragraph we have to include atleast three components of paragraph itself, there are topic sentence, supporting sentence, and closing or concluding sentence.

            Paragraph can be derives into adequate and inadequate Cohesion. To make an adequate Cohesion, you have to make sure that the topic sentence as a main idea is forming a united whole of paragraphs with a constructical and structural sentence. Topic sentences will be support by some united sentence to make the idea clear as a whole.

            Otherwise, inadequate Cohesion is when the idea is not forming a united whole of paragraphs. Furthermore, the most important thing is pay attention for the details of ideas and unity between each of paragraphs for developing the paragraph.

WHAT IS COHESION?

            Cohesion means that the paragraph which  unity between topic sentence, supporting sentence, and closing or concluding sentence that forming a united sentence in first paragraph until the end of it. So the reader will able to get an overall picture from the unity so and the reader will able to understand what the writer talking about.

WHAT IS THENDIFFERENCE BETWEEN COHERENCE AND COHESION?

            Coherence means that the paragraph which  has a good relationship between topic sentence, supporting sentence, and closing or concluding sentence that flowing smooth from one sentence in first paragraph until the end of it. Cohesion means that the paragraph which  unity between topic sentence, supporting sentence, and closing or concluding sentence that forming a united sentence as a whole in first paragraph until the end of it. The main difference between coherence and cohesion is Coherence means every paragraph related each other. Whereas, Cohesion means in every paragraph forming a united whole as one unit of paragraph.

EXAMPLE OF THE TEXT:

“ME”

     I would like to tell you about a little thing which related to my whole life. Everything is just about me, my family, my surrounding, and my daily life. Of course, every single one has their own life, so do i. I just want to share a little piece of my life. This paragraph will give you a picture about who am i and how is my life generally.

     I am a undergraduate student of Muhammadiyah University of metro, I was born on Sukadamai Village, a little village in the corner of South Lampung 19 years ago actually in May, 13th 1994. I have wonderful family who always stand up beside me in every minute which i have. Dwi Waskito and Istiqomah are the most powerful human who I’ve ever known, they are my parent. They have given a beautiful name to me, “Nanda Habib Firdaus”.

     That is My Name, Nanda Habib Firdaus. My nick name is Nanda or Habib, I love my name so much because it has a wonderful meaning, “A blue-eyed boy of heaven”. That was my parents’ pray for the goodness of my life. Basically, I just like a common boy who always tries to make his parents proud. I’m not really smart, but I’m not a stupid boy. I live in Sukadamai village with my family. I have one young brother and sister. Physically I’m fat, my weight around 87-89 kilogram, my height is just around 1,62 meters, myself is so far from proportional. But I have a pair of pretty enough eyes, brown eyes. My nose is flat, but I have a thin lips. My hair is black middle-curly with spike hairstyle.

     From all weakness of mine, I have some capabilities which better than other in my daily life. I able to speak in front of the public fluently and I can sing well. Singing is one of my hobbies. Singing is my second-girlfriend, it’s always accompanies me in my spare time. Usually I pass my spare time by singing with my guitar. I can sing more than three albums even I can sing all the day in my holiday. I love singing like a girlfriend, Singing teach me to become a humble in every steps of the life.

     Those are who am I, Nanda Habib Firdaus. A fatty boy who always tries to makes his parents proud of him and love singing like a girlfriend.

ANALIZING OF TEXT:

“ME”

INFORMATION	PARAGRAPHS
This paragraph is categorized as adequate cohesion paragraph because every sentences form a united whole and the idea is built as one unity.	I would like to tell you about a little thing which related to my whole life. Everything is just about me, my family, my surrounding, and my daily life. Of course, every single one has their own life, so do i. I just want to share a little piece of my life. This paragraph will give you a picture about who am i and how is my life generally.
This paragraph is categorized as inadequate cohesion paragraph because every sentences is not form a united whole and the idea is different each other. So the idea is not built as one unity.	I am a undergraduate student of Muhammadiyah University of metro, I was born on Sukadamai Village, a little village in the corner of South Lampung 19 years ago actually in May, 13th 1994. I have wonderful family who always stand up beside me in every minute which i have. Dwi Waskito and Istiqomah are the most powerful human who I’ve ever known, they are my parent. They have given a beautiful name to me, “Nanda Habib Firdaus”.
This paragraph is categorized as inadequate cohesion paragraph because every sentences is not form a united whole and the idea is different each other. So the idea is not built as one unity. This paragraph is belongs to coherence paragraph where the idea of the paragraph is just related not united.	That is My Name, Nanda Habib Firdaus. My nick name is Nanda or Habib, I love my name so much because it has a wonderful meaning, “A blue-eyed boy of heaven”. That was my parents’ pray for the goodness of my life. Basically, I just like a common boy who always tries to make his parents proud. I’m not really smart, but I’m not a stupid boy. I live in Sukadamai village with my family. I have one young brother and sister. Physically I’m fat, my weight around 87-89 kilogram, my height is just around 1,62 meters, myself is so far from proportional. But I have a pair of pretty enough eyes, brown eyes. My nose is flat, but I have a thin lips. My hair is black middle-curly with spike hairstyle.
This paragraph is categorized as adequate cohesion paragraph because every sentences form a united whole and the idea is built as one unity.	From all weakness of mine, I have some capabilities which better than other in my daily life. I able to speak in front of the public fluently and I can sing well. Singing is one of my hobbies. Singing is my second-girlfriend, it’s always accompanies me in my spare time. Usually I pass my spare time by singing with my guitar. I can sing more than three albums even I can sing all the day in my holiday. I love singing like a girlfriend, Singing teach me to become a humble in every steps of the life.
This paragraph is categorized as adequate cohesion paragraph because every sentences form a united whole and the idea is built as one unity. It is must for the conclusion because it’s must be closing which unite and clear.	Those are who am I, Nanda Habib Firdaus. A fatty boy who always tries to makes his parents proud of him and love singing like a girlfriend.