Writing Task 3 (Cohesion)

-          HOW TO WRITE PARAGRAPH WITH ADEQUATE AND INADEQUATE COHESION?

To make a good paragraph, we should include at least into three components. They are:

·         Topic Sentence                 : A main sentence in a descriptive text, usually built into three parts, they are: Complete sentence, most general, controlling idea.

·         Supporting Sentence        : The sentence which support the main sentence or topic sentences in the descriptive text.

·         Concluding Sentence       : Concluding sentence is a sentence which conclude all of the main idea in each paragraph in the descriptive text, usually divide into four: Summary, Logical Conclusion, Suggestion (Recommendation), and Prediction.

A good paragraph is a paragraph which including Coherence and Cohesion. Among topic sentence, supporting sentence and concluding sentence should have relationship each other.

-          DEFINITION OF COHESION

Cohesion means paragraph that unity among topic sentece, supporting sentence, and concluding sentence. It purpose to make the reader easy to understand.

-          THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COHERENCE AND COHESION

Coherence means logical and consistent. It is mean paragraph that has a good relationship between topic sentence, supporting sentence, and concluding sentence. It purpose to make the reader easy to understand. Cohesion means paragraph that unity between topic sentence, supporting sentence, and concluding sentence. The differences between coherence and cohesion is Coherence means every paragraph related each other but Cohesion means in every paragraph forming a united whole as one unit of paragraph. The purpose of them are same , to make the reader understand what the writer talking about.

-          THE EXAMPLE OF PARAGRAPH WITH ADEQUATE AND INADEQUATE COHESION.

THIS IS ME

In this nice opportunity I am going to describe myself. It has purpose to inform the people who want to know me more. Hopefully after this I will get many new friends because they read this paragraph.

My name is Tika Fatmawati. Everybody call me Tika. I don’t know the meaning of my name. Something that I know until today is my parents like this name, so that it becomes my name. I am twenty one years old. I am undergraduate student of Muhammadiyah university of Metro fourth semester in English department.

            Physically I’m fat girl. My weight is 51 kilograms and my height is 150 meters. I have around face with flat nose. My skin is creamy yellow and my hair is curly.  Most of people said that I look like my mother. They said most of part our body are similar. It is like our lips, eyes, and skin. Our body is also similar. I have thick short body and my mother too. Our personality is almost same. The important thing of us is: we are beautiful women. I live in a beautiful village in Kalianda, shouth Lampung. But I stay in boarding house in Metro city to continue my study at university. I’m Javanese and I have some hobbies, they are: cooking, reading and watching movie. I like cooking because I like eating. On other hand, hopefully I can be a good wife and good mother in the future. Reading makes me beautiful because it makes increase my knowledge. One of the characteristic of beautiful girl is have much knowledge. Beautiful is not only about physical but also mind. I believe that most of people like watching movie, so do I. because it can entertain us and refresh our mind from the problem of our life, for the examples are: the assignments from the school, don’t have money any more, and broken heart. I also like adventure very much, because I will get many new experience. There are many activities that I can do in free time. It’s like tidy my bad room, washing the cloths, cooking, doing my assignments, reading and the last is watching movie.

That’s all some information about me. A beautiful girl from Kalianda which like adventure.  If you want to know more, just come to me and ask me everything.

-          ANALIZING OF TEXT:

INFORMATION	“THIS IS ME”
This paragraph is categorized into adequate cohesion paragraph, because every sentence has related each other.	In this nice opportunity I am going to describe myself. It has purpose to inform the people who want to know me more. Hopefully after this I will get many new friends because they read this paragraph.
This paragraph is categorized into inadequate cohesion paragraph, because every sentences has different each other, so  the idea is not built as one unity.	My name is Tika Fatmawati. Everybody call me Tika. I don’t know the meaning of my name. Something that I know until today is my parents like this name, so that it becomes my name. I am twenty one years old. I am undergraduate student of Muhammadiyah university of Metro fourth semester in English department.
This paragraph is categorized into inadequate cohesion paragraph, because the idea is not forming a united whole of paragraph.	Physically I’m fat girl. My weight is 51 kilograms and my height is 150 meters. I have around face with flat nose. My skin is creamy yellow and my hair is curly.  Most of people said that I look like my mother. They said most of part our body are similar. It is like our lips, eyes, and skin. Our body is also similar. I have thick short body and my mother too. Our personality is almost same. The important thing of us is: we are beautiful women. I live in a beautiful village in Kalianda, shouth Lampung. But I stay in boarding house in Metro city to continue my study at university. I’m Javanese and I have some hobbies, they are: cooking, reading and watching movie. I like cooking because I like eating. On other hand, hopefully I can be a good wife and good mother in the future. Reading makes me beautiful because it makes increase my knowledge. One of the characteristic of beautiful girl is have much knowledge. Beautiful is not only about physical but also mind. I believe that most of people like watching movie, so do I. because it can entertain us and refresh our mind from the problem of our life, for the examples are: the assignments from the school, don’t have money any more, and broken heart. I also like adventure very much, because I will get many new experience. There are many activities that I can do in free time. It’s like tidy my bad room, washing the cloths, cooking, doing my assignments, reading and the last is watching movie
This paragraph is categorized into adequate cohesion paragraph, because every sentences built a united forming of the paragraph. And that’s the closing of the paragraph.	That’s all some information about me. A beautiful girl from Kalianda which like adventure.  If you want to know more, just come to me and ask me everything.