Maintain formal style mastery across a sustained 1500-2000-word piece (CCSS L.8.3; W.8.4)
Exercise
Difficulty 3
~9 min
eng.g8.s.ex_17
Cohesion Audit
Prompt
Audit your capstone draft paragraph 1 for cohesion. Underline repeated key terms (red); circle pronouns and trace antecedents (blue); bracket signposts (green); mark parallel structures (purple). Note any cohesion gaps.
Answer criteria
type
rubric
rubric
All 4 device-colors applied + ≥1 cohesion gap named = mastery
Hints
- Cohesion devices: repeated terms / pronoun chains / signposts / parallel structure.
- A cohesion gap is a sentence that doesn't connect to neighbors.
Misconceptions to watch
- Marks only one device.
- Doesn't identify gaps (claims paragraph is fully cohesive when it isn't).
Used in lessons