Cohesion and Coherence Analysis in the Book Entitled Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students (Second Edition) by Stephen Bailey

Abstract

This research is conducted to explain Cohesion and Coherence Analysis in the book entitled Academic Writing : A Handbook for International Students (Second Edition) by Stephen Bailey. The researcher used qualitative method to examine the problem. The collecting data of the research method includes reading and understanding, finding out, collecting, identifying, and classifying and arranging. The analyzing data of the research method by used displaying, explaining, interpreting, and concluding. The theories and approaches used by researchers are discourse analysis, cohesion and coherence analysis. The results of the study are cohesion type, and coherence type. Grammatical cohesion includes reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. Lexical cohesion includes the type of reiteration, and collocation. Coherence type includes resemblence relations, cause-effect relations, and contiguity relations.