transition

Examples of transition in the following topics:

• Transitions, Signal Phrases, and Pointing Words

  • Transitions connect your ideas and make it easier for your readers to follow your thought process.
  • By doing so, transitions help your writing feel like a unified whole.
  • An "if–then" structure is a common transition technique in concluding sentences:
  • Within paragraphs, transitions tend to be single words or short phrases.
  • See the "List of Common Transitional Devices" below for more examples.

• Introduction to Verbs: Tense, Aspect, and Mood

  • Transitive verbs describe actions that are done to a specific thing, called the verb's direct object.
  • Transitive verb: cut.
  • Most verbs can be classified as transitive or intransitive, depending on their context.

• Varying Your Sentence Structure and Vocabulary

  • So, introduction, conclusion, body paragraphs with topic sentences and transitions—yes to all of these.
  • Writers familiar with their own habits will sometimes do a “word search” on a word or phrase they typically overuse (“however,” “that said,” “moreover,”) and replace some of those words with another transition. 
  • Or they might rework a sentence to avoid using any transition words in that spot, if they feel they’re overdoing it. 

• Semicolons

  • Semicolons can also be used between independent clauses linked with a transitional phrase or a conjunctive adverb.

• Principles of Writing in the Sciences

  • Many students struggle to transition from one topic to the next.
  • Transitions are well worth mastering—they are the glue that holds your ideas together.

• Approaches to Your Body Paragraphs

  • You'll also have transition sentences that link the paragraphs together, and they can appear at the end or beginning of each paragraph.
  • You might decide to have a concluding sentence and then a transition sentence.
  • From the transition sentence, we anticipate that the next paragraph will contain evidence that government agencies not only knew about it but somehow supported the practice.

• Introduction to Commas

  • The comma is a punctuation mark that indicates a slight break, pause, or transition.
  • The comma is a punctuation mark that indicates a slight pause or a transition of some kind.
  • Common introductory elements include transition words and statements about time, place, manner, or condition.

• Deciphering an Argument You're Reading

  • What can often happen in particularly dense or difficult articles is that authors do not signal to readers that they are transitioning into an engagement with counter-arguments, so suddenly it seems as though authors are arguing for the opposite of their thesis.
  • It is likely that you will notice that this was a transitional moment in the structure of the text.

• Introducing Quotations

  • " Additionally, a counter-argument can be an opportunity for you to begin transitioning into the body of your argument by first showing why you think the counter-argument is incorrect.
  • When you transition into explicitly providing positive evidence that supports your thesis, introducing a quotation from a relevant source can be used as evidence or support of a claim that you have made.

• Eliminating Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

  • You can use a semicolon with a transition word to indicate a specific relation between the two clauses; however, you should use this sparingly.
  • You can use a semicolon with a transition word to indicate a specific relation between the two clauses; however, you should use this sparingly.