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Transitions

Following are some common transitional words and phrases, organized by the types of cues they offer to readers.

This list is provided courtesy of the Southern Illinois University Writing Centers. You can visit their helpful Web site at www.siu.edu/~write.

Cues that lead the reader forward

To show addition:		To show time:
Again	Moreover	At length	Later
And	Nor	Immediately thereafter	Previously
And then	Too	Soon	Formerly
Besides	Next	After a few hours	First, second
Equally important	First, second, etc.	Afterwards	Next, etc.
Finally	Lastly	Finally	And then
Further	Furthermore	Then

Cues that make the reader stop and compare

But	Notwithstanding	Although
Yet	On the other hand	Although this is true
And yet	On the contrary	While this is true
However	After all	Conversely
Still	For all that	Simultaneously
Nevertheless	In contrast	Meanwhile
Nonetheless	At the same time	In the meantime

Cues that develop and summarize

To give examples:	To emphasize:	To repeat:
For instance	Obviously	In brief
For example	In fact	In short
To demonstrate	As a matter of fact	As I have said
To illustrate	Indeed	As I have noted
As an illustration	In any case	In other words
	In any event
	That is

To introduce conclusions:	To summarize:
Hence	In brief
Therefore	On the whole
Accordingly	Summing up
Consequently	To conclude
Thus	In conclusion
As a result