The goal of this study is to determine how lexical elements affect writing quality, make understandable to the reader and differences of using them in descriptive and narrative essays. The investigation includes essays of second year students in the field of ESL and finds the most dominant lexical cohesion by analyzing the relationship between types of the essays and coherence and consistency based on reiteration (repetition, synonym, near-synonym, superordinate and meronym) and collocation as well.
ROLE OF LEXICAL COHESIVE ELEMENTS IN WRITTEN DISCOURSE
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Lexical cohesive elements
writing quality
descriptive essay
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