✅ Writing Time (Linking words)

Below is a handy list of words that are both useful and appropriate to academic language😊

🔷 Describing similarities

-Likewise
-Correspondingly
-Equally
-Not only… but also
-In the same way
-Similarly

🔷  Showing cause and effect

-Consequently
-As a result
-Thus
-Hence (never ‘hence why’)
-Since (try to avoid ‘as’ when showing cause and effect)
-Because
-Therefore
-Accordingly
-This suggests that
-It follows that
-For this reason

🔷  Comparing and contrasting

-Alternatively
-However
-Conversely
-On the other hand
-Instead
-Yet
-On the contrary

🔷  Showing limitation or contradiction

-Despite/in spite of
-While (not whilst!)
-Even so
-On the contrary
-Nevertheless
-Nonetheless
-Although
-Admittedly

#writingtask2 #Top