Transition Chart

The glue that holds together your essays and makes them cohesive is transition. Transition can be accomplished in two ways:
1. Excellent Organization of Ideas
2. Use of Transitional Words and Phrases

Transitional words and phrases can be grouped into the following categories:

Cause and Effect Conclusion Comparison Contrast

Accordingly As a result Along the same lines Although
As a result Consequently In the same way But
Consequently Hence Likewise By contrast
Hence In conclusion Similarly Conversely
Since In short Despite the fact that
It follows, then In sum Even though
It follows, then However
The upshot of all this is that In contrast
Therefore Nevertheless
Thus Nonetheless
To sum up On the contrary
To summarize On the other hand
Ultimately Regardless
Whereas
While
Yet
Addition Concession Example Elaboration
Also Admittedly After all Actually
And Although it is true that As an illustration By extension
Besides Granted Consider In short
Furthermore I concede that For example That is
In addition Of course For instance In other words
In fact Naturally Specifically To put it another way
Moreover To be sure To take a case in point To put it bluntly
So too Indeed To put it succinctly