Cohesion features

anaphoric reference

use of pronouns, reduces lexical density of texts

lexical repetition of content words

creates lexical links throughout text, binding successive sentences seamlessly.

hyponymy

lexemes of the same semantic field. only used when can be described using categorical word

syntactic cohesion (parallelism / antithesis)

forges syntactic link through contrast, thus achieving cohesion

linking adverbials / conjunctions

used at start of new section / sentence

creates link between text to establish temporal link between sentences.