Transcript Transitions - Shouldersofgiants

Transitions
What are they and how do you use
them?
If you build a tower of bricks what will
happen if you just stack bricks on top of
each other with nothing in between them;
what might happen eventually?
Paragraphs use
transitions to
make sentences
in the paragraph
flow together.
In an essay or
theme, we use
whole sentences
to create the
transitions that
connect all the
ideas.
HELPFUL TERMS TO KNOW
2 Types of Detail Sentences
• Lead-off Sentences
• Follow-up Sentences
Lead-off Sentence
• Introduces a new detail
•
Contains a transition
Follow-up Sentence
• Provides more information
about the detail.
Transition
•
Signals the introduction of a new
detail.
•
Shows the relationship between
the detail and the rest of the
paragraph.
You need to add transitions to
your writing to show the
relationships between your
ideas
What does good Paragraph
Structure look like?
Model Detail Paragraph
(from a paper on Bertrand Russell, written in March 2008)
Two social causes that he put a great deal of effort into were the Nuclear
Weapons Movement and protesting the Vietnam War. After World War II, the United
States and Russia started a nuclear arms race. They each stockpiled thousands of
nuclear weapons. People became frightened of the dangers and started a
movement to try to stop it. Bertrand Russell participated in this in the 1950’s and
early 1960’s. He believed strongly that Britain could set an example to the world,
leading to gradual disarmament of the powers. In his later years, Russell was a
strong critic of the Vietnam War. He believed that the war was immoral and
dangerous to civilization. Russell also turned against the United States. Because of
his strong beliefs against the war a lot of young people in the United States looked to
him as a role model.
Although he was looked up to at that time because of his antiwar beliefs, what
he is best known for today is his many accomplishments in philosophy and
mathematics. Russell believed that that the foundations of mathematics were based
on logic…