{"id":1254,"date":"2018-06-04T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1254"},"modified":"2018-07-17T15:30:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T15:30:59","slug":"transitioning-between-ideas","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/transitioning-between-ideas\/","title":{"raw":"Transitioning Between Ideas","rendered":"Transitioning Between Ideas"},"content":{"raw":"Just as it is important to introduce and transition into a quote or paraphrase, it is equally important to use transitions to connect ideas from one sentence to another or from one paragraph to another. Ideas in an essay relate to and build upon each other. Ideas in one sentence or paragraph develop and elaborate on the ideas that precede them. It is important to create a logical progression of ideas and arguments for readers and to be clear about how specific paragraphs connect to each other.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1277\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"300\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/arrows-box-business-533189-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"wp-image-1277 size-medium\" \/> From Pexels.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nTransitional words or phrases link your ideas together and help you transition from one sentence to another or one paragraph to another and subsequently move from one idea and argument to another smoothly and logically. There are various types of transitions that will signal to your reader the direction of your ideas and paper. For instance, additive transitional words like \u201cand,\u201d \u201calso,\u201d \u201cmoreover,\u201d \u201cfurthermore,\u201d or \u201cin addition to\u201d all suggest that you are continuing with the same argument. However, words such as \u201chowever,\u201d \u201cbut,\u201d \u201cyet,\u201d \u201cnevertheless\u201d or \u201con the contrary\u201d suggest a counter argument or shift in your thinking. To conclude on a point, you might try transitional words like \u201cin conclusion,\u201d \u201ctherefore,\u201d \u201chence,\u201d \u201cconsequently,\u201d and so forth. To emphasize a point, words like \u201cin fact,\u201d \u201cindeed,\u201d <strong>\u201cto highlight,\u201d or \u201cmore importantly or significantly\u201d<\/strong> work well. In short, there are a number of ways to transition from one point to another and it is important that you use effective transitions to help you build and develop your ideas and arguments smoothly and in a way that is easy for your audience to follow.\r\n\r\nSuch transitional words appear in the above example when we put McCosker and Johns into conversation with Rambukanna. When showing commonality between their ideas, we used transitional expressions such as \u201clike\u201d or \u201cthey too,\u201d and \u00a0when we showed difference between their arguments and our own, we used words like \u201cyet\u201d or \u201cin contrast\u201d. To draw together their ideas and show how they applied to our argument, we used \u201cin short.\u201d","rendered":"<p>Just as it is important to introduce and transition into a quote or paraphrase, it is equally important to use transitions to connect ideas from one sentence to another or from one paragraph to another. Ideas in an essay relate to and build upon each other. Ideas in one sentence or paragraph develop and elaborate on the ideas that precede them. It is important to create a logical progression of ideas and arguments for readers and to be clear about how specific paragraphs connect to each other.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1277\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1277\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/arrows-box-business-533189-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"wp-image-1277 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/arrows-box-business-533189-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/arrows-box-business-533189-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/arrows-box-business-533189-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/arrows-box-business-533189-65x49.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/arrows-box-business-533189-225x169.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/arrows-box-business-533189-350x263.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Pexels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Transitional words or phrases link your ideas together and help you transition from one sentence to another or one paragraph to another and subsequently move from one idea and argument to another smoothly and logically. There are various types of transitions that will signal to your reader the direction of your ideas and paper. For instance, additive transitional words like \u201cand,\u201d \u201calso,\u201d \u201cmoreover,\u201d \u201cfurthermore,\u201d or \u201cin addition to\u201d all suggest that you are continuing with the same argument. However, words such as \u201chowever,\u201d \u201cbut,\u201d \u201cyet,\u201d \u201cnevertheless\u201d or \u201con the contrary\u201d suggest a counter argument or shift in your thinking. To conclude on a point, you might try transitional words like \u201cin conclusion,\u201d \u201ctherefore,\u201d \u201chence,\u201d \u201cconsequently,\u201d and so forth. To emphasize a point, words like \u201cin fact,\u201d \u201cindeed,\u201d <strong>\u201cto highlight,\u201d or \u201cmore importantly or significantly\u201d<\/strong> work well. In short, there are a number of ways to transition from one point to another and it is important that you use effective transitions to help you build and develop your ideas and arguments smoothly and in a way that is easy for your audience to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Such transitional words appear in the above example when we put McCosker and Johns into conversation with Rambukanna. When showing commonality between their ideas, we used transitional expressions such as \u201clike\u201d or \u201cthey too,\u201d and \u00a0when we showed difference between their arguments and our own, we used words like \u201cyet\u201d or \u201cin contrast\u201d. To draw together their ideas and show how they applied to our argument, we used \u201cin short.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"menu_order":9,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1254","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1128,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1254\/revisions\/2188"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1128"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1254\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}