Academic Transition Words and Phrases: Manchester University's Phrasebank, Exercises of German Culture

Download Academic Transition Words and Phrases: Manchester University's Phrasebank and more Exercises German Culture in PDF only on Docsity! Key transitional words & phrases The words and phrases listed below can be used as ‘signposts’ within your writing to provide cues to your reader about: the direction your argument is heading, what you think is important, counter-arguments, summary/ concluding statements, etc. Cues that lead the reader forward To show addition: To show time: Again, Moreover, At length, Later Immediately thereafter, Previously, And then, Too, Soon, Formerly, Besides, Next, After a few hours, First, second, etc Further, Lastly, Finally, and then Furthermore, What's more, 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 summarise 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, The University of Manchester’s Academic Phrasebank contains many more words and phrases: www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/ December 2014 Student Learning Services