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Sophia: Transition Words
This tutorial focuses on transition words. In text it defines transition words and how they improve writing; in PDF it provides a list of transition words and phrases by category with examples. Using a PowerPoint presentation, it...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Transition Words
This lesson introduces transition words and how they can improve writing in a video, and then provides a slide show which lists of transition words that show contrast, addition. illustration, and cause and effect. It also offers a link...
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Sophia: Additive Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on additive transition words; it defines transition words and lists the categories. It explains what additive transitions do and when to use them, it provides a list of additive transition words and example...
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Sophia: Transition Words
This slideshow lesson discusses transition words including the roles of transition words, their purpose in topic sentences, lists of transition words and phrases by purpose, and transitions within sentences.
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Sophia: Illustrative Transition Words
This slideshow focuses on the use of illustrative transition words. It defines them, explains why to use them, provides a list of them, and offers examples.
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Sophia: Additive Transition Words
This lesson focuses on additive transition words; it defines transition words and lists the types of transitions. It explains additive transition words, offers a list of the most common ones, and provides example sentences showing how to...
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Sophia: Cause and Effect Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on cause and effect transition words; it defines and lists the categories of transition words. It discusses when to use cause and effect transition words, provides a list of sample words, and offers sentence...
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Sophia: Sequencing Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on sequencing transition words; it explains the purpose of transition words in general and then lists sequencing transition words by purpose: numerical, continuation, summation, and conclusion. It provides...
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Sophia: Concluding Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on the use of concluding transition words; it defines transition words and lists the categories. It explains when and how to use concluding transitions, provides a sample list of them, and offers sentence...
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English Language: Smart Words: Transitional Words and Phrases
Lists of transitional words or phrases broken into categories based on their purposes. Can be downloaded in PDF format. There is also a short discussion of their important role in essay writing. W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Elementary School Transition Words and Phrases
This article focuses on transition words and phrases including how to explain them to children and providing lists of transition words and phrases by types such as Time and Sequence, Cause and Effect, and Conclusion. It also provides a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
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Essay Transition Words: Compare and Contrast Transition Words
This reference page focuses on compare and contrast transition words including defining transitions and compare and contrast transitions, providing a list of transition words, and showing how to use transitions in writing essays.
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Transitional Words and Phrases
This site has a list of transitional words and phrases organized by their function in a sentence or paragraph. Because they are organized under such headings as "providing an example" and "showing conclusions," it is easy to find an...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Chronological Transition Words
This slideshow lesson focuses on chronological transition words; it defines and lists the categories of transition words. It defines chronological transition words, states their purpose, provides a list of them, and shows how to write...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Transitions
Discusses how to transition effectively between paragraphs. Includes examples and how they can be revised to connect the ideas better. The second page of the resource has lists of transitional words and phrases categorized by how they...
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Berkeley County Schools: 2nd and 3rd Grade Writing Folder
This writing packet includes all final product tasks and writing process resources for all 2nd and 3rd grade students. Lists of transition words, homophones, parts of speech, and more are included.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: "Compare/contrast Essay Help Sheet" [Pdf]
This is the 2-page PDF "Compare/Contrast Essay Help Sheet" which features an explanation of the three methods of comparison and contrast and a list of transition words that compare/contrast.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Essays for Exams
This handout provides a comprehensive look at writing essays for exams including what a well-written answer to an essay exam question includes, a step-by-step decription of how to write an effective essay exam, an explanation of patterns...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Connecting Sentences
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides ways to connect sentences using transition words and punctuation (colons and semi-colons). Includes a list of transitional words and their uses, and a discussion of how punctuation is used to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on topic sentences using two slideshows. The first defines topic sentences, discusses purpose and placement, and provides a sample thesis statement followed by accompanying topic sentences samples. The second...
Indiana University
Indiana University East: Writing Center: Transitions: Understanding Signal Words
This resource page provides nine lists of signal words and what they mean. Covers words that show time, addition, contrast, comparison, illustration, location, cause and effect, conclusion or summary, and emphasis or clarification.
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Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Essays
This lesson focuses on the comparison and contrast essays; it defines new terms: compare/contrast essay, yin/yang Venn diagram, block comparison, and point by point comparison. It also provides a slideshow which defines and discusses the...
University of Missouri
University of Missouri: Clear Writing: Ten Principles of Clear Statement
This page features a list of ten principles that lead to writing clearly and concisely, such as avoiding unnecessary words, writing like you talk, writing to express and not to impress, and the like. It also discusses "fog indexes" to...