Cohesive devices and the ways of achieving cohesion in a newspaper article
They are links between sentences and paragraphs which enable the readers to understand the article as a whole. Cohesion can be achieved in following ways:
1. the repetition of vocabulary, or use of pronouns, synonyms or general names to refer the same object
2. the use of articles to show new/known information
3. the use of word groups
4. the use of collocations
5. variations in word order to put old information towards the beginning of sentences, and new information towards the end; this often requires structures such as passive voice to change the normal word order of subject-verb-object
6. the use of linking words such as conjunctions (and, although), prepositions (despite, as well as) and edverbs (meanwhile, secondly)
7. omission of words which are clear from the context, typically to avoid repetition