Supporting students in developing their essay writing skills


Sentence Starters and Discourse Markers support students in writing their practice essays and exam answers. Discursive Markers


SEQUENCE Initially Firstly Next Subsequently Finally


COMPARISON However Nevertheless Alternatively On the other hand To balance this In comparison In contrast


ILLUSTRATION For example For instance Such as As revealed by In other words


PERSUASION Of course Naturally Obviously Meanwhile Surely Clearly Indeed


OPINION AND INTERPRETATION It would seem One might… Consider / suggest Imagine / conclude Infer / deduce Possibly On the strength of


RESTRICTION Only if Unless Except for Save for Although


CONCLUSION / SUMMARY To conclude / in conclusion Finally To sum up On the whole


ADDITION Also Furthermore In addition Moreover As well as The following


EMPHASIS Above all In particular Notably Especially Significantly More importantly In fact


CAUSE AND EFFECT Consequently As a result Therefore Of course Eventually


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