SENTENCE TRANSITION WORDS

Your primary goal when undertaking a writing exam is to present complex ideas in a clear and understandable way. You can guide readers through various ideas by using transitional words in individual sentences. Transitional words and phrases create powerful links between your ideas and can help your reader understand your paper’s logic. Here are two for each type of relationship writers usually try to make between ideas:

- Causation: accordingly, as a result
- Chronology: after, during
- Combinations: additionally, besides
- Contrast: after all, and yet
- Example: for example, for instance
- Importance: most importantly, primarily
- Location: adjacent to, centrally
- Similarity: in similar fashion, likewise
- Clarification: that is to say, in other words
- Concession: granted, naturally
- Conclusion: finally, in conclusion
- Intensification: undoubtedly, of course
- Purpose: for this purpose, to that end
- Summary: to summarize, in summary