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Transitional terms that serve as academic connectors within sentences, between sentences, between paragraphs, and to unify an essay.  

Contrast
In spite of / Despite	Link two contrasting ideas. Followed by a noun phrase
Although / (Even) though	Link two contrasting ideas. Followed by a sentence.
However Nevertheless Still / Yet Even so On the contrary In contrast	Introduce a new idea which marks a contrast with previously stated ideas. Used after a strong pause and separated from the sentence they introduce by a comma.
On the one hand ... on the other hand	Links two contrasting ideas/paragraphs.
In contrast to Contrary to	Link two contrasting ideas. Followed by a noun phrase.
whereas	Link two contrasting ideas. Not separated by commas.

Reason and Cause
Because As Since Seeing that	Introduce a sentence. Subordinate sentences introduced by BECAUSE always appear in final position.
Because of On account of Owing to Due to	Introduce a noun phrase.

Addition
Moreover Furthermore In addition Besides What's more	Used after a strong pause and separated from the sentences they introduce by a comma.
As well as In addition to Besides	Used to add one more piece of information. Followed by a noun phrase.

Purpose
In order to (to) So as to	Introduce an infinitive of purpose.
In order that So that	Introduce a sentence usually with COULD.

Consequence
Consequently As a consequence As a result Therefore	Used after a strong pause and separated from the sentences they introduce by a comma.
As a consequence of As a result of	Followed by a noun phrase.
So	Introduces a sentence. No commas.

Exemplification
For example For instance	Introduces an example referring to previously stated ideas.
Such as	Introduces an example referring to the last idea/word

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