How to Write Better Essays

But, However, On the other hand, Yet... indicating contrast

For example, That is... indicating illustration

Similarly, Moreover, Furthermore,

In addition, By extension, What is more... indicating extension

Therefore, Consequently,

As a result, Thus... indicating conclusion

Then, After that, It follows... indicating the next step

Others you’ll find useful include ‘likewise’, ‘correspondingly’, ‘hence’,

‘accordingly’, ‘nevertheless’, ‘incidentally’, ‘otherwise’, ‘nonetheless’,

‘obviously’.

Compound transitions

The more you look for transitions to record in your notebook the

more compound transitions you will come across. As the name

implies, they are made up from one or more words or transitions.

There is, therefore, almost an inexhaustible variety of them, indeed

you can make up your own as easily as you can collect them. Their

value lies in giving you a much wider range of transitions to choose

from, allowing you to navigate exactly the right passage through

your arguments with just the right changes in emphasis and direction

to reflect all the subtleties of your arguments. The list below is

broken up into the more obvious changes you’re likely to use in your

arguments.

Conjunction And, moreover, – And although – And in one

respect – And once – And so – And while some – And

as it is

Extension So, even though – It follows then – In this way – From

that angle – By the same token – On that account –

Given this

Endorsement Not surprisingly – Of course – And moreover – Most

important of all – Even more – In particular

Contrast But instead – But at the same time – And yet – But

even – But then again – But perhaps – Yet still – But

while

Narrative Following this – And after that – But then – So began –

But so far – More recently

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