Analyzing Students Difficulties in Maintaining their Coherence and Cohesion in Writing Process

The findings of this research showed that there were some difficulties faced by the students in maintaining their coherence and cohesion in writing process, specifically in determining and stating their ideas, fulfilling the supporting details, using the proper signals and spelling as well as punctuation. Based on the difficulties above, the researcher found some effective ways to maintain coherence and cohesion in writing process. Those are, using three stages in writing called pre-writing, outlining and writing and revising drafts. Besides the three stages previously, coherence can also be maintained by organizing our ideas in a clear, logical order while cohesion can be maintained by providing transitions between sentences, use pronoun reference effectively, repetition of key words and ideas, and also parallel structure