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In order for collections of sentences or utterances to succeed effectively, the discourse needs to be organized or conducted in such a way that it will be successful. In written English, this calls for both coherence and cohesion.

For a text to be coherent, it needs to be in the right order – or at least make sense. For example, if we take a paragraph from the book Teacher Man by Frank McCourt and put the sentences in the wrong order, the paragraph becomes incoherent:

At the end I wondered how I lasted that long [1]. On the second day I was almost fired for mentioning the possibility of friendship with a sheep [2]. I often doubted if I should be there at all [3]. On the first day of my teaching career, I was almost fired for eating the sandwich of a high school boy [4]. Otherwise there was nothing remarkable about my thirty years in the high school classrooms of New York City [5].

But, if we read the sentences in the order McCourt originally wrote them (4, 2, 5, 3, 1) the paragraph makes sense, and its internal logic – the coherent way the author sets out his thoughts – becomes clear.

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(Adapted from Harmer, J. The practice of English language teaching. 2007. P. 29).