This book explores the property of coreference within various texts as a possible means of distinguishing genre types. Based on observed rather than invented material it supplies empirical data on coreference as a cohesive mechanism within authentic English texts. Coreferential form and frequency are identified in nine texts representing three genres academic journals news magazine articles and fictional narrative texts. This study offers not only quantitative but also qualitative information regarding coreference in three individual text types thereby laying the foundation for a comparative study of the three different genres. Focusing on the property of coreference in this way singles out differences in language use and allows for some pertinent statements to be made regarding modes of coreference as an indicator of text variety.