Transitions Within Paragraphs - How to Make Them Smoothly by Duncan Fisher

You need to have a lot of quick ways of starting each thought that you build into each paragraph that you write. I've shown in a different article how you can make one paragraph flow into the next one, but here I'm talking about how you can make individual sentences flow together. There are lots of stock sentence-starters out there, and you can generate your own with a little practice too. In the meantime, here are some standard phrases you can use to get going, and keep going.

For laying out an argument:

It's clear that

because

firstly

so

Another reason is

Moreover

because

For stages within an argument:

To begin with

Next

Then

After that

Finally

Now

For comparing things:

X and Y are different, but they are also alike in certain ways.

For example, they both

They are also alike in that they

Y also resembles X by

Not that X and Y are identical, though.

Y does differ from X in one way.

Finally, both X and Y

For discussing things:

It's been said that

because

The argument runs

Someone else who agrees with this is

This argument goes

On the other hand

A competing argument is that

This way of thinking suggests that

It's clear that

because

For explaining things:

There are different reasons that

One explanation is that

Evidence for this is

Another explanation is

This idea is based on

There! Like I say, you'll be making up a lot of your own sentence-starters, of course. And you'll find lots more every time you read, now that you're looking for them. But in the meantime, this is a good box of ammo to get you going.

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