Prewriting and drafting stages focus primarily on getting the thoughts and ideas out of our heads and onto the paper.  We don’t worry too much about how they sound together or if they flow well, and we most likely aren’t thinking much about our reader during that stage.

The revision stage, though, is where we want to consider our readers and what information they might need to understand the material.  We look again at what we’ve written to see if the ideas connect within the paragraph and across the essay in general. We might have forgotten a step in the process or have jumped from one idea to the next without providing a bridge.  Revising for cohesion fixes those problems and smooths out the choppy points.

Effective writing requires some sort of logical order between sentences and among paragraphs to make sense to readers, and this section helps you determine the best way to do that in your revision.