Witte, Stephen P. and Faigley, Lester “Coherence, Cohesion,

Witte, Stephen P. and Faigley, Lester “Coherence, Cohesion, and Writing Quality”
This article was extremely confusing, leaving it difficult to haul out aspects which are worth remembering, and holding onto. Should be discussed with someone. Geeze. Below, four important definitions.
Syntax: 1 a: the way in which linguistic elements (as words) are put together to form constituents (as phrases or clauses) b: the part of grammar dealing with this
Lexical: 1 : of or relating to words or the vocabulary of a language as distinguished from its grammar and construction
Taxonomy: 1: the study of the general principles of scientific classification
Semantics : the study of meanings: a: the historical and psychological study and the classification of changes in the signification of words or forms viewed as factors in linguistic development
“Cohesion defines those mechanisms that hold a text together, while coherence defines those underlying semantic relations that allow a text to be understood and used” (251).

“Cohesion, therefore, defines a text as a text. A cohesive tie ‘is a semantic relation between an element in a text and some other element that is crucial to the interpretation of it” (236).
“Halliday and Hasan call within-text cohesive ties endorphic and references to items outside the text exophoric” (236).
“For Halliday and Hasan, cohesion depends upon lexical and grammatical relationships that allow sentence sequences to be understood as connected discourse rather than as autonomous sentences” (236).
“Lexical cohesion is the predominant means of connecting sentences in discourse” (240).
“Collocation refers to lexical cohesion ‘that is achieved through the association of lexical items that regularly co-occur (p. 284)” (240).
“At the most general level of analysis, the high rated essays are much more dense in cohesion than the low-rated essays” (243).
“better writers tend to establish stronger cohesive bonds between individual T-units than do the writers of the low-rated essays” (243).
“The better writers seem to have a better command of invention skills that allow them to elaborate and extend the concepts they introduce” (244).
“Analyses of cohesion thus measure some aspects of invention skills. The low-rated essays stall frequently, repeating ideas instead of elaborating them” (246).
“One implication of the present study is that if cohesion is better understood, it can be better taught” (249).
“A great portion of the advice in composition textbooks stops at sentence boundaries. Numerous exercises teach clause and sentence structure in isolation, ignoring the textual, and the situational, considerations for using that structure” (250).
“Cohesion defines those mechanisms that hold a text together, while coherence defines those underlying semantic relations that allow a text to be understood and used” (251).