University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Writing Center
- Coherence: Transitions Between Ideas
Capital Community College; Hartford, Connecticut - Illustrates use of coherence in writing through transitions, repetition of key words and phrases, pronoun reference, and parallelism. Includes a chart of the transitional devices (also called conjunctive adverbs or adverbial conjunctions). Also, analyzes an actual essay and links to a quiz where students can do a similar analysis. Site maintained by Professor of English Charles Darling (2003).
- Transitional Devices (Connecting Words)
Purdue University Online Writing Lab - A simple list of transitional devices by category available in printer-friendly or Adobe PDF versions.
- Transitioning: Beware of Velcro
The Writing Center at Harvard University - Cautioning against indiscriminate use of transitions, this site gives tips for transitioning. It makes the point that "in a well-crafted essay, every sentence is a transitional sentence." --Written by Maxine Rodburg (1998).
- Using Transitions
The Maple Woods Writing Center Home Page. - Another list of commonly used transitional words and phrases sorted by category. Includes an example of use of transitions within a paragraph. Also gives explanation of using transitions between paragraphs.
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