Developing cohesion
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Introduction
This is one of the most important cohesive words that writers have at their
disposal. Teaching students how to use this correctly is rather tricky, however, as
this can overlap in meaning with other words, including it 
, the and that .
This file gives details of the uses of this to refer back to something that has
just been mentioned. You may either read through the file page by page or jump to a
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Introduction
Using this to refer to previous stretches of text
