Essay Transitions

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Essay Transitions

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One cant write a good essay without correct
usage of transition words and phrases. Essay
transitions connect your ideas and thoughts,
making a text with a set of words.
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As you surely know, to write a good essay you
first need to brainstorm your ideas. If you have
a fertile imagination, you will have no serious
problems with this step of writing an essay.
However, a rich imagination is not a guaranty of
a good essay.
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Statistics show that even a student who is able
to produce really great and original ideas may
loose the marks, if he / she cant express his /
her own opinion clearly.
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Imagine that your stream of thoughts is a raging
river. To convey your ideas to your potential
readers you have to build a bridge. As you can
guess, this bridge is your essay transitions.
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Several Easy Recommendations concerned with
Building a Bridge across the Raging River, or
How to Convey Your Own Thoughts and Ideas to Your
Potential Readers
1. Make your bridge maximally comfortable (for
easy and pleasant reading of your essay). It
means that your transition words and phrases have
to be in the all necessary places.
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2. Make your bridge maximally short (in order not
to bore your potential reader). It means that
your essay transitions shouldnt be in the all
unnecessary places.
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3. Make your bridge maximally durable (in the
case if you dont want your readers to fall into
the raging river of your ideas and sink there).
It means that your transition words and phrases
have to be logical, adequate and to the point.
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Dont try to make your bridge maximally original,
given that in this case it wont be a maximally
comfortable, short and durable. Remember that a
bridge with a strange and ornate design may
irritate your potential readers, as it is
difficult to move!
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Some Examples of Transition Words and Phrases
1. If you want to give an example of something,
you may use the following essay transitions for
example (e.g.), for instance, provided, like, as,
specifically, etc.
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2. In the case if you write a compare and
contrast essay, the possible variants of
transition words and phrases are 2.1. Compare
transitions in the same manner, have in common,
as well as, not only but also, too, also and so
on. 2.2. Contrast transitions however, in
spite of, in contrast, opposite, unlike, though,
for all that, whereas and so on.
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3. If you write an argumentative (or a
persuasive) essay, you may choose some essay
transitions from the following examples on the
one hand, on the other hand, moreover,
furthermore, etc.
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4. In the case if you write a cause and effect
essay, you may use transition words and phrases
like these because, under these circumstances,
for the reason that, in this case, as a result,
for as much as, for the reason that and so on.
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5. If you have to make an introduction, you may
write some of the following transition
phrases lets speak about, Id like to
describe, the purpose of my essay is and so on.
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6. If you have to make a conclusion, add some of
these essay transitions thus, hence, therefore,
in brief, in short, consequently, finally, in
conclusion, at last, I want to make a conclusion
that, etc.
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P.S. You may use these transition words and
phrases not only in the cases listed above.
E.g. if you write a compare and contrast essay,
it may contain some elements of a cause and
effect essay type, and the vice versa. Add your
own transition words and phrases to this list!
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