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Conjunctive cohesion and relational coherence in students' compositions

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dc.contributor.advisor Hubbard, E.H. en
dc.contributor.author Ramasawmy, Narainsamy en
dc.date.accessioned 2009-08-25T10:56:42Z
dc.date.available 2009-08-25T10:56:42Z
dc.date.issued 2009-08
dc.date.submitted 2004-11-30 en
dc.identifier.citation Ramasawmy, Narainsamy (2009) Conjunctive cohesion and relational coherence in students' compositions, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1790> en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1790
dc.description.abstract This research study examines the relationship between conjunctive cohesion and relational coherence in students' narrative and expository compositions and writing quality (here defined in terms of teachers' ratings). Altogether 64 compositions were analysed using Halliday and Hasan's (1976) cohesion theory and Crombie's (1985) set of interpropositional relations. The results of the study show that both conjunctive cohesion density and relational coherence, as defined by the density of contiguous functional relations, affect perceptions of writing quality. Writers of low-rated narrative and low-rated expository compositions not only used a more limited range of conjunctives but their compositions manifested less cohesion density and contiguous relation density than writers of high-rated narrative and expository compositions did. en
dc.format.extent 1 online resource (ix, 99 leaves)
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject Second language writing en
dc.subject Teachers' ratings en
dc.subject Writing quality en
dc.subject Contiguous relations en
dc.subject Relational coherence en
dc.subject Conjunctive cohesion en
dc.subject Cohesion en
dc.subject.ddc 401.41
dc.subject.lcsh Cohesion (Linguistics)
dc.subject.lcsh Language and languages -- Ability testing -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh Composition (Language arts)
dc.title Conjunctive cohesion and relational coherence in students' compositions en
dc.type Thesis en
dc.description.department Linguistics and Modern Languages en
dc.description.degree M. A. (Applied Linguistics) en


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