Transitions

Transitions provide a way to communicate connections or assumptions to your reader. Do you want your reader to compare ideas? Are you trying to highlight a certain example from the text? Are you prompting readers to draw conclusions from a previous thought? Transitions help you to more logically connect the ideas in your argument. The following table describes transitional devices and their connected categories:

To Add:	and, again, and then, besides, equally important, finally, further, furthermore, in addition
To Compare:	whereas, but, yet, on the other hand, however, nevertheless, on the contrary, by comparison, compared to, but, although, conversely, in contrast
To Prove:	because, since, for the same reason, evidently, furthermore, indeed, in fact, in addition
To Show Exception:	yet, still however, nevertheless, in spite of, despite, of course, sometimes
To Show Time:	immediately, thereafter, soon, finally, then, later, previously, formerly, next, and then
To Repeat:	in brief, as I have said/argued, as has been noted,
To Emphasize:	definitely, extremely, indeed, in any case, absolutely, positively, always, unquestionably, certainly
To Show Sequence:	first, second, third, etc. next, then following this, at this point, after, subsequently, consequently, previously, concurrently
To Give an Example:	for example, for instance, in this case, in this situation, to demonstrate, to illustrate, as an illustration