Transitions

Help connect sentences within and between paragraphs.
Guide reader through text, demonstrate your train of thought, and logically progress your argument towards the conclusion.
Add a note of authority to your writing.

1. Continuity with what has gone before:
	and, in addition, moreover, furthermore, also, indeed, besides, secondly, next, similarly, again, equally important, beyond that
2. An example or illustration of a point:
	for example, for instance, as an illustration
3. Add emphasis to a point which reinforces a previous point:
	in fact, in other words, that is, indeed, as a matter of fact
4. A conclusion or a result of what you have just been discussing:
	thus, hence, therefore, consequently, as a result
5. Contrast with what has just been said:
	but, however, nevertheless, by contrast, on the other hand, conversely
6. A qualification or reservation about what has been discussed:
	no doubt, of course, to be sure
7. A summary statement is coming up:
	in short, all in all, in brief, in conclusion, to conclude, given all this
8. Pronoun and adjectival links to something which has gone before:
	this, that, the above-mentioned, such
9. Establishing time relationships:
	after, afterwards, then, later, before, while, at the same time, immediately, thereupon, next, meanwhile, subsequently, previously, simultaneously

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