I think that's feasible.
You can base your classification of the cohesive devices on either Quirk et al (1985) or Celce-Murcia and Larsen-Frenman (1999)'s framework.
It's better to analyse more than one category of cohesive devices, such as listing, summative, appositional, contrastive, transitional, inferential, resultive, corroborative etc..
The followings are related papers that might be useful to your study.
Altenberg B. and Tapper M. (1998) The use of adverbial connectors in advanced Swedish learners' written English. In Granger S. (ed.) Learner English on Computer. London & New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 80-93.
Bolton, K., Nelson, G. & Hung, J. 2002. A corpus-based study of connectors in student writing. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 2, pp. 165-182.
Granger, S.& Petch-Tyson. 1996. Connector usage in the English essay writing of native and non-native EFL speakers of English. World Englishes 15: 19-29.
Chen Cheryl Wei-yu (2006). The use of conjunctive adverbials in the academic papers of advanced Taiwanese EFL learners. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 11:1. 2006. ca. 120 pp. (pp. 113C130)
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