Connecting ideas correctly entails a lot of writing exercises because writing is something we can't learn by scrutinizing theories only. Try to step to the next level after we've been familiar enough with constructing simple grammatical constructions like words, phrases, clauses or sentences.
In this post, I'll provide you some expressions/ phrases which are generally used to link or connect ideas logically between two ideas. The keywords here are "clarity" and "logic". All these expressions below are meant to link our ideas in a clear and logical manner, which prove to be useful to attract readers.
This time we'll focus on listing ideas in a sequential order. To tell readers that a series of actions/ events occur in a certain order, apply these to our composition:
- firstly/ first of all/ in the first place/ to begin with
- secondly, thirdly, ...etc
- lastly/ finally/ eventually/ at (in) the end/ ultimately
- next/ subsequently/ afterward(s)/ after this (that)
This post is the first to initiate a series on how to connect ideas. On the next posts, I'll provide some brief explanations on other interesting topics about connecting ideas:
- how to summarize ideas
- how to add supportive ideas
- how to contrast different ideas
- how to state results
- how to state reasons
- how to state purposes
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