The Importance of Cohesion in Academic Writing

Abstract

This paper aims to help the flow of writing of academic pieces of work. As it is known, it is difficult to define what academic writing is because it depends on the purpose of the writer and the reasons that they are writing. Therefore, there are many different forms of academic writing pieces. This paper focuses on pieces written by international university students for education, teaching or social studies. It could help, for example, with an essay, an assignment, a report, or research. Correspondingly, cohesion is crucial; it helps the academic work to be more understandable and worthy to read. In addition, it enables the writer to express their idea coherently in writing. Consequently, this paper illustrates some authors’ advice and views that should help students and researchers improve their academic writing skills. It also analyzes some academic essays written by non-English major Libyan students.