Viking and wizard want you to write powerful paragraphs and papers they think transition words and phrases will help your essays have flow transition just means change and change is all about flowing from one state of being to another wizard says that transitions will help you connect ideas within a paragraph and that will give your paragraph flow and who doesn’t like flow flow is cool wizard wants you to use transition words and phrases to magically join examples and supporting evidence in your paragraph I don’t know if it’s magic or not but I do know that transition words and phrases will give your paragraph flow take a look at this list of transition words and phrases which can be useful in a paragraph where you are giving examples another key point is a good phrase classics such as for example or such as are also excellent ways to connect your key points or big ideas for instance or to demonstrate or to clarify are also great transition phrases you can use to connect your examples and supporting evidence within your paragraph these words and phrases will give your essay excellent flow not only do you want flow within a paragraph between your examples and supporting evidence you also want to connect one paragraph to another and Viking wants you to know that transitions can be an excellent way to give your essay flow between one paragraph and another Viking wants you to use transitions to powerfully move your reader from one paragraph to another and we call this what I know you’ve got it now we call it Flo I know you want your essay to have flow and viking has given you this list of transitions of agreement for paragraphs that agree with your basic thesis so you might have something like in the first place or following that in addition don’t forget your ordinal numbers first second and third or as you’re building your argument an equally important argument the good old fashioned furthermore or likewise or comparatively are also excellent transitions of agreement to give your essay you got it let’s hear from everybody flow however what if you are writing an argumentative or persuasive essay and you need to transition from the key points of your argument to informing the reader about your opponent’s argument how in the world are you going to flow from the positive or greeing paragraph to the opposition well here are some key words that wizard wants to share with you how about although this may be true or on the other hand or I like in reality because that has some punch to it so try some of these transitions of opposition to give your essay flow wizard and Viking have worked hard to convince you that transitions in an essay both within a paragraph and between paragraphs will help give your essay excellent you got it flow and in conclusion we want to share with you the importance of transitions for your essay conclusion phrases such as in the final analysis or as shown above or in summary or in conclusion to sum up these are all excellent ways to begin that most difficult paragraph the conclusion so altogether now using transition words and phrases will give your writing what you got it it will give your writing flow