Coherence informal

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Coherence

• Textual coherence is about organizing a text logically and meaningfully.

• It involves arranging ideas, information, and elements to create a clear message with smooth transitions.

• Coherence is crucial for ensuring the audience understands the conveyed message.

• Key features of coherence analysis include cohesion, inference, logical ordering, formatting, consistency, and conventions.

Fomatting

• Font style, spacing, alignment, headings and subheading, lists, text colours, graphics, margins and white space

• Visual features that can help give prominence to more important element of a text

E.g. large headings are read before smaller text and the connotations of colours can contribute to the meaning of a text

Logical ordering

• Occurs when we construct a text

• Arrange information in a way that will maximise understanding

• Often done subconsciously

• In planned, text , it is an intentional process design to increase audience understanding

Inference

• The meaning that the audience makes when considering a text that contain information that is overtly present

• Draw inferences from available information, contect, and our own reasoning

  • Allows conclusions to be drawn beyond what is written

• Relies on cultural or social understanding of a particular context

Consistency

• When similar concepts or entities are referred to in the same way throughout the text, without unnecessary variations

• Consistent formations = contribute to overall coherence of a text by producing visual cues to the reader, creating unified presentation

Conventions

• Established rules and expectations for how certain types of texts are structured organised or presented

  • Inc. genre-specific structures like the way recipes ot analytical essay responses are arranges

• Established conventions in writing helps readers follow text, understanding the intended meaning and engaged with the content in a familiar and expected manner

Cohesion

Cohort texts relies on a high level of unity: elements working together to form a whole