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Down and Dirty Tips: Persuasion Essay: Adding Transitions

Tips for students on writing a Persuasive essay. While this guide is not comprehensive, it does provide enough information for to students to follow and pass the assignment. This guide is especially helpful for those who don't have much time.

Persuasion Transitions

Helpful Transitional Expressions

Transitional expressions can help tie ideas together and show relationships. They also reveal organization patterns to help your reader follow along.

Try out a few in your paper. Be sure that any transition you use makes logical sense.

 

 

To add an idea: first, second, third, next, in addition, moreover, furthermore, besides, as well

To give an example: for example, for instance, as an illustration, to illustrate, as a case in point, in particular, in general, specifically

To qualify a point: perhaps, probably, for the most part, many if not all

To concede a point: granted, certainly, of course, no doubt, surely, naturally, although this may be true

To emphasize a point: above all, in fact, especially, most importantly, equally important, primarily, mainly, most significant

To summarize: overall,  all in all, finally, in brief, on the whole, in summary, in other words, in conclusion