21 Chapter 2 PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA This chapter presents, analyzes, and interprets the data gathered from the written compositions of the 30 Linguistics and Literature students who were enrolled in Advanced Composition class. Each student had an entry with 8 to 10 sentences, accumulating a total of 261 sentences for the 30 students. This also discusses the (1) types of lexical cohesion, (2) types of occurrences of lexical cohesion, (3) and types of description present in the students’ essays. Types of Lexical cohesion used by the students in their essays Descriptive method is used in the research in analyzing the types of lexical cohesion. The frequencies of occurrence of lexical cohesion found in the students’ descriptive compositions were recorded according to its type: reiteration (repetition, synonymy, superordinate, general word); collocation (antonymy, meronymy, hyponymy, andco-hyponyms). The following tables of frequency in the succeeding pages would show the results.