Connecting Ideas and Thoughts With Coherence

Writing a good article requires you to connect well with the readers. In case of blogs, this is especially true since they represent more or less colloquial use of language. It is hence very important to connect your thoughts and sentences well without overlapping or interleaving thoughts which go someplace else.

When you write a paragraph, there are often ideas that have relationships with the ones that precede them. Such ideas have to be interconnected with transitional tags. Here are the various connectives you can use for various requirements.

Adding ideas	Use: and, also, in addition, again, and then, besides, further, furthermore, in the first place, moreover, still, too
Comparison	Use: also, likewise, in the same way, similarly, exactly
Contrast	Use: although, however, nevertheless, notwithstanding, yet, at the same time, in spite of that, despite, even so, even though, for all that, in contrast, instead, on the contrary, on the other hand, otherwise, regardless, still, though
Emphasis	Use: Certainly, definitely, terribly, indeed, in fact, of course
Exemplification or Conclusion	Use: for example, for instance, in short, it is true, of course, namely, specifically, to illustrate, thus, truly, all in all, altogether, as has been said, finally, in brief, in conclusion, in other words, in particular, in simpler terms, in summary, on the whole, that is, therefore, to put it differently, to summarize
Concession	Use: granted, of course, naturally, obviously

If you have doubts, please shoot them through comments. You might also like to have a look at Paragraph creation guidelines

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