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What are the words and phrases that link sections of a text?
Transitions (or transitional words and phrases).
What is the main goal writers use transitions to create in their text?
Cohesion.
Besides creating cohesion, what is the second main thing transitions help clarify?
The relationships among the ideas being presented.
The text states transitions help clarify the relationships among the ideas a writer is doing what with?
They are presenting (or are presenting).
What is the fundamental principle or skill the students are learning to improve in their writing?
Cohesion and Clarity.
When a transitional word or phrase begins a sentence, what punctuation mark must follow it?
A comma
A transition can join two closely related independent clauses if they are connected by what punctuation mark?
A semicolon
If a transition joins two independent clauses using a semicolon, what punctuation mark follows the transition?
A comma
If a transitional word appears in the middle of a word or phrase, how must it be set off?
With two commas (one before and one after).
What is the proper term for a transitional word or phrase that appears inside a sentence (not at the beginning or joining clauses) and is set off by commas?
An interrupter (or parenthetical element).
The transition "similarly" indicates which relationship?
Similarity.
The transition "on the other hand" indicates which relationship?
Contrast.
The transition "moreover" indicates which relationship?
Addition of Ideas.
The transition "as a result" indicates which relationship?
Cause-and-effect.
The transition "in particular" indicates which relationship?
Example.
Name a transition that indicates Similarity.
also, likewise, similarly, or in the same way. (Any one is correct)
