What are they and how do you use them? 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.

2 Types of Detail Sentences HELPFUL TERMS TO KNOW 2 Types of Detail Sentences Lead-off Sentences Follow-up Sentences

Introduces a new detail Lead-off Sentence Introduces a new detail Contains a transition

Provides more information 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…