Cohesive Conjunctions in Medical Articles

A book helpful to medical students and writers as well as EFL/ESL students. Findings from this study provide valuable insights for the importance of textual cohesion achieved by cohesive conjunctions in academic writing. Many ESL and EFL learners are unable to use grammatical cohesive devices( in this case cohesive conjunctions) in their written production academically and properly enough to create a coherent and cohesive text. By shedding light on the importance of conjunctions as cohesive devices this study raised awareness for the teaching of cohesive conjunctions that could eventually be applied to English for Academic Purposes courses. Drawing on the corpus-based analysis of cohesive conjunctions used in different frequencies a systematic teaching of these cohesive devices could be designed.