Abstract:

The aim of this study is determine the level of using coherence elements and consistency on the written expressions of high school and university students. Accordance with this purpose 40 high school students in grades 1 and 3 and 40 university students in grades 1 and 3 selected as a sample. Students were given three sentence introductory paragraph and were asked to write a text of this paragraph. Levels of coherence elements and consistency of the text written by students have been identified. Determining the levels of coherence and consistency in students writing, The Scale for Evaluating Cohesion Level and The Scale for Evaluating Coherence in Story which prepared under doctoral thesis by Coskun (2005) was used.

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