Analysis of Writing Cohesion: Student's Response to Colleagues' Posts

This assignment presents a student's response to the posts of three colleagues, focusing on the principles of effective writing, particularly flow and cohesion. The student agrees with the importance of rhythm in writing to ensure flow and avoid monotonous sentences, while also discussing the ease of developing topic sentences. The response to the second post aligns with the student's own experiences, highlighting challenges with idea flow and improvements made through the use of short active verbs, specific language, context provision, and organized text. The student also agrees with the third colleague's reflection on the importance of logical connections, topic sentences, transitions, clear wording, and varied sentence structure for ensuring flow and cohesion. The student adds the importance of clearly stating the main idea of each paragraph to further enhance flow and cohesion in written work. The assignment demonstrates an understanding of key writing concepts and the ability to analyze and synthesize information from multiple sources.

Running head: RESPONSE TO COLLEAGUES’ POSTS 1
Response to colleagues’ posts
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RESPONSE TO COLLEAGUES’ POSTS 2
Response to colleagues’ posts
Response to Kierra Mason’s post
I agree with Mason’s post that for one to ensure flow and cohesion in his/her writing, there must
a rhythm which is defined by the stress partners of words in a sentence. It is important to
incorporate rhythm in a written work since it adds melody to words and helps the writer to
prevent monotonous sentences (Crossley, Dascalu, Trausan-Matu, Allen, & McNamara, 2016).
However, as opposed to Mason I personally don’t face any problem developing a topic sentence
because I have acquired a number of tips which enable me to do this with ease.
Response to Dana Archuleta’s post
Archuleta’s point of view fits well in my writing experience. Beforehand, I have been facing
challenges while trying to ensure nice flow of ideas in my write ups. In regards to my instructor’s
feedback, in most cases my written works lacked clarity and conscienceless, but fortunately I
have noted a slight improvement. Use of short active verbs, being specific, providing context,
and organizing my text are some of the principles I am following to ascertain clarity in all my
writings.
Response to Alfred’s post
I agree with Alfred’s reflection that logical connections, topic sentences, transitions, clear,
concise wording, and varied wording and sentence structure are the primary ways to ensuring
flow and cohesion in any writing task. It is true that incorporating these in a paragraph helps the
writer bring fluidity to his/her writing. I would also like to add that in order to further improve

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flow and cohesion in any written work, the writer should ensure that main idea of every
paragraph is clearly stated (Dan, Duc, & Chau, 2017).

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References
Crossley, S., Dascalu, M., Trausan-Matu, S., Allen, L., & McNamara, D. S. (2016). Document
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Dan, T. C., Duc, V. M., & Chau, P. T. H. (2017). An investigation into common mistakes in
paragraph writing of the first-year English-majored students: A case study in can the
university, Vietnam. Journal of education Naresuan university, 19(4), 308-330.