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	0006 Understand the Influence of Purpose and Audience

	0007 Unity, Focus, and Development

	0008 Apply Principles of Organization
		Recognize Effective Organization
		Transitional Words or Phrases

	0009 Sentence and Paragraph Construction

	0010 Apply Correct Usage in Standard English

	0011 Apply Knowledge of Mechanical Conventions

	Practice Writing Tests

	0012 Analyzing and Revising Sentences

	0013 Produce a Written Summary

	0014 Prepare an Organized, Developed Composition


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0008 Apply Principles of Organization in Writing

Identify Appropriate Transitional Words or Phrases (e.g., "however," "as a result," "moreover") to Help Readers Understand the Organization of Ideas

Common Transitional Words and Phrases
To Indicate TIME ORDER	To Indicate CONTRAST	To Indicate COMPARISON	To Indicate CAUSE & EFFECT
earlier	a clear difference	after all	accordingly
former	a distinct difference	along the same lines	as a consequence
formerly	a striking distance	also	as a result
heretofore	a strong distinction	analogous to	as a result of
in retrospect	against	as compared with	because
in the past	although	as well as	because of this
not long ago	although this may be true	balanced against	by reason of
of late	an opposing view	by comparison	caused by
preceding	and yet	comparable	consequently
previously	another distinction	comparatively	due to
prior to	balanced against	compared to	following that
recently	but	consistent with	for
yesterday	by contrast	conversely	for this purpose
-----------	contrarily	correlate	for this reason
at present	contrary to	correspondingly	furthermore
at the same time	conversely	equal	hence
at this moment	counter to	equally important	henceforth
by now	despite	equivalent	in conclusion
concurrently	despite the fact that	however	in effect
currently	different from	identical	in view of
immediately	even though	in a similar fashion	it follows that
now	for	in comparison	on account of
presently	however	in contrast	otherwise
right away	in contrast	in like manner	owing to
simultaneously	in opposition to	in the same manner	so
until now	nevertheless	in the same way	subsequently
-----------	nonetheless	like	the end result
henceforth	on the contrary	likewise	the outcome
hereafter	on the other hand	matching	the ramifications of
in the future	opposing	meanwhile	then
-----------	otherwise	nevertheless	thereafter
after a long time	regardless	of little difference	therefore
after a short while	the antithesis of	parallel to	thus
afterward	the reverse of	relative to	to this end
later on	to differ from	relatively	accordingly
not long after	to differentiate	resemble	as a result
right after	to oppose	resembling	consequently
soon after	up against	similarly	hence
thereafter	whereas	synonymous	it follows, then
	while	the next likeness	since
	yet	to the same extent	so
		too	then
		uniformly	therefore
		where	thus
		whereas