Coherence and Cohesion

[ataraxia]

Hello, could anyone clear up the difference between coherence and cohesion in written texts? I'm a little confused and feel like there's a lot of overlap between the two yet don't know how to distinguish them.

[helenv]

Coherence: understanding the text
Cohesion: how well the text sticks together

[greenbeans]

Coherence: understanding the text
Cohesion: how well the text sticks together

yeah that's exactly right.
for example, features of coherence might be how paragraphing and subheadings aid the reader's understanding of the text, or the prior knowledge and social inference they bring to the fore helps them to be able to properly understand. cohesion is how the text is stuck together, like how substitution, repetition, references (cataphoric, anaphoric and deictics) and collocation is used for the text as a whole to be more cohesive