'cohesive devices' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to techniques used to connect ideas together in a sentence or paragraph. For example: "To make his argument strong, the author used a range of cohesive devices, such as pronouns, conjunctions and repetition."
Specifically, understanding about narrative structure of written texts pertains to children's mastery of structural coherence (event structure) and linguistic cohesion (the use of cohesive devices to show the semantic and logical relations between clauses and sentences) of story organization.
In these studies, children with reading comprehension difficulties often demonstrated deficits in two important elements of narrative production, namely the structural coherence (event structure) and the linguistic cohesion (the use of cohesive devices to show the semantic and logical relations between clauses and sentences) of story organization.
The outline of the cohesive chains establishes the structure of cohesion upon which the textual coherence arises; and the cohesive devices in these cohesive chains are important in forming the grid of cohesion structure.
Feasts and festivals in the past have been significant informational and cohesive devices for the continuity of societies and religious institutions.
Chris Riddell's drawings of linguistic elements – graphemes, phonemes, cohesive devices etc – as bizarre and fantastic creatures (Children's laureate rises to a beastly challenge, 14 May) are witty for sure, but let's not jeer too loudly.
Often cohesive devices were incorrectly used by the writers.
Hence, in the construction of coherence, the clauses with those cohesive devices are more significant than those clauses without the cohesive devices.
The number of cohesive devices used was another measure of organizational quality.
Initially, a list of cohesive devices was built through a brain-storming session.
