Writing - Transitions - Identifying a Concluding Idea (THEREFORE, THUS, CONSEQUENTLY)

Learn how to use "therefore" and "thus" to show you have reached a conclusion. These transitions will improve your writing by helping you link ideas. In this lesson, we will look at transitions of conclusion and consequence to help ideas flow and improve our writing styles. I'll also teach you how you can use words like "so", "then", "hence", and "as a result" for the same purpose.

Using Transitions to Add Information (The FANIMALS Song!)

Video and lesson content from WordVice

Transitions are used to move from one idea to another idea in writing or speaking and can be achieved using transition terms and phrases. These help create “flow” in your paper—melding together facts, opinions, and arguments into a seamless whole and making it much easier for readers to understand its logical development.

One of the most common type of transitions is ADDITIVE TRANSITIONS. The purpose of these kinds of transitions is to connect two or more pieces of information by signaling to the reader that something new is being added--whether that new information is similar to what the author has just described or whether is it something unrelated.