1.Lexical Cohesion 1.1 Repetition In Nkrumah's article ,"The Pandora's Box of Ebola" the writer uses many repetitiones to assert his idea.The word"Ebola" repeats all over the article.In paragraph one lines 2.6.7and 10 and in paragraph two lines 1,2,4,6and7 and paragraph three lines 4 and 5,and in paragraph four lines 1,2,3,4,5 and paragraph five lines 1 and 2,and finally in paragraph eight lines 1,2,4 and 6 .Another repeated word is "international".This word is mentioned in paragraph one line 1,and paragraph four line 4 and paragraph five line 1 and paragraph eight lines 3 and five.Another repeated clause is"West Africa".This clause is mentioned in paragraph one lines 7 and 10 ,in paragraph two line 7,in paragraph …show more content…
The writer resorted to the use of antonymys to explain his idea and it's opposite.As for grammatical cohesion ,the writers use several examples of reference to refer to items instead of the repetition of the same word .They use personal , demonstrative and comparative references .The use of anaphoric references is more than cataphoric one.The writers use nominal and verbal substitutions and there is no ellipsis.Conjunctions are used many times all over the article to connect words,phrases and