Descriptive Paragraph PowerPoint There are two qualities that you need to ensure that your writing is intelligible: cohesion and coherence. Even if your writing is technically perfect, the reader may still have difficulty understanding the gist of the overall text if it is not well-structured. To make your writing easy to understand, structure your sentences and paragraphs well and arrange them in a logical order. Good grammar provides cohesion, while proper organization ensures coherence. Double-check that each sentence and paragraph is both cohesive and coherent. Coherence means that something makes sense. In writing, it is provided by a clear and understood structuring of paragraphs and sentences. Writing is coherent when the theme or main idea of the text is understandable. Coherent writing follows an overall theme in which each part is related to the whole; each sentence is located in its proper place within the paragraph and each paragraph is ordered within the larger