This document provides a list of linking phrases and signposts that can be used to structure writing and summarize information in 3 sentences or less. It includes transition words for sequencing ideas, adding additional points, showing cause and effect, comparison and contrast, giving examples, specifying details, emphasizing important points, and referencing other parts of the text.
This document provides a list of linking phrases and signposts that can be used to structure writing and summarize information in 3 sentences or less. It includes transition words for sequencing ideas, adding additional points, showing cause and effect, comparison and contrast, giving examples, specifying details, emphasizing important points, and referencing other parts of the text.
This document provides a list of linking phrases and signposts that can be used to structure writing and summarize information in 3 sentences or less. It includes transition words for sequencing ideas, adding additional points, showing cause and effect, comparison and contrast, giving examples, specifying details, emphasizing important points, and referencing other parts of the text.
This document provides a list of linking phrases and signposts that can be used to structure writing and summarize information in 3 sentences or less. It includes transition words for sequencing ideas, adding additional points, showing cause and effect, comparison and contrast, giving examples, specifying details, emphasizing important points, and referencing other parts of the text.
Sequencing Adding Points Cause & Effect Conclusion
Firstly/First of all In addition As a consequence In conclusion Secondly Moreover As a result To sum up Thirdly Additionally Consequently To recap Then Furthermore Hence To encapsulate Next Except that Therefore In a nutshell After that Besides Thus To conclude Finally/Lastly What is more Because It can be concluded Apart from this Since What else As Contrast Comparing For this reason Introducing Whereas Conversely Because of To begin with However In contrast Due to To start with Although On the contrary Lead to To commence with Nevertheless On the one hand Resulted in Initially Nonetheless On the other hand To this end Subsequently Though In comparison - Owing to Even though with Stems from In spite of/ Despite Compared with Notwithstanding Compared to Even so
Giving Example Specifying Showing Similarity Cross Reference
For example Specifically Equally As noted above For instance More specifically Likewise As noted below As an illustration In terms of By the same token As is discussed below As an example In particular to In like manner As is discussed above To cite an example In regard to In the same way As stated previously Namely As regard to Similarly As stated earlier Such as With regard to Indeed As will be discussed later To illustrate In reference to In fact As discussed earlier To demonstrate With respect to In relation to Generalizing Emphasizing Rephrasing Giving Stress Generally Clearly In other words The thing is In general Naturally That is to say The important thing is For the most part Obviously To put it more simply The most important - After all thing is On the whole To put it another way Evidently Indeed In most cases Visibly To be more precise In fact Usually It is evident that To be more concise The fact is As a rule Noticeably Or rather As a matter of fact