ADJES (Ahmad Dahlan Journal of English Studies) VOL 8, No. 1, 1-16 https://doi.org/10.26555/adjes.v8i1.17446 1 Cohesive Devices in English Contents Written by Blog Writers and English Department Students Gullit T. Taufan Email: gullittaufan@polije.ac.id Politeknik Negeri Jember, Indonesia Introduction Cohesion is an essential aspect to take into consideration when investigating text quality because it can be regarded as a powerful tool in discourse production and interpretation (Tanskanen, 2006: 27) from which the texture or the property of ‘being a text’ that distinguishes a text from non-text can be created (Halliday & Hasan, 1976: 2). For sure, when investigating text quality, the cohesion belongs to one from various aspects i.e. vocabulary, morphology, phonology, and syntax (Saville-Troike, 2006: 150-151). This means that relying on the cohesion as a single aspect to conclude the quality of certain texts is not acceptable. This is also the reason why the debates about how powerful the cohesion is in creating unified text do exist (see Tanskanen, 2006). However, there is no doubt that cohesion is essential to study because the cohesion creates relations of meaning that exist within text and define it as a text (Halliday & Hasan, 1976: 4). Halliday and Hasan (1976: 4) explain that cohesion can be created when the elements in a text is dependent on one another which means that one element presupposes the others to set up the relations of the elements to be integrated into a text. In this case, the cohesion can be ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history Received: 25 July 2020 Revised: 12 November 2020 Accepted: 15 March 2021 This study was conducted to investigate the use of cohesive devices in English writings written by Indonesian blog writers and English department students. It also focused on investigating the appropriateness of the use of cohesive devices in the writings. The data were English texts written by 15 blog writers and 15 English department students and analyzed manually by employing content analysis. The findings show that (1) lexical cohesion was used most frequently by both groups of the study followed by reference, connectives, and substitution and (2) the blog writers were more capable in using the cohesive devices appropriately in their writings. This is an open access article under the CC–BY-SA license. Keywords cohesive devices English blog contents Indonesian blog writers English department students