This paper examines the nature of cohesion in the writings of fourth year students reading for the B.A. degree in Translation with regard to English at the college of Arts, University of Mosul. 2. The reason why fourth year were chosen was because by this stage they have had some experience in composition writing and have overcome some of the mechanical problems in writing more than first year students. Twelve compositions were obtained. They were selected as representative samples of ability in the class by their "composition" teacher. The compositions were analysed into sentences. They were analysed in order to determine the cohesive 'ties being used to link sentnces.