Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Firstly,
to begin with,
to start with,
Primarily,
Initially (if referring to a list of events, like in a journal)
Secondly,
Besides something…,
Another reason/factor/problem
Along with the above issues, another point to consider is the issue of …
Secondly
To begin/start with
In the first/second place
Primarily
ADDITION/Listing
Furthermore,…
Also
Moreover,…
What’s more,…
Primarily
Importantly
CONTRAST
However,…
Instead
Although
As for
while
On the contrary
In fact
Nevertheless
Nonetheless
Rather
In comparison
Another possibility
Yet
still
But
Better/worse still
Despite this/despite the fact that
Whereas
While it is true that
On the other hand,…
Differing from this,…
From an alternative perspective,…
Conversely,…
In spite of this,…
COMPARISON
Compared with
In comparison with
Likewise,…
In a like manner,…
Similarly,…
In the same way,…
Equally,…
Similar to this,…
Also
To extend a point
Furthermore
Indeed
In the same way
Besides
Above all
As well
In addition
In other words
Namely
As follows
Typical of this
A typical/particular/key example
Including
Especially
Not least
In particular
Notably
Chiefly
Mainly
Most importantly
A good illustration of this is
It is interesting to note
For example,…
To illustrate this,…
For instance,…
To demonstrate this,…
Take the case of,…
Such as,…
Equally
Consider the case/example of…
ILLUSTRATION
That is
That is to say
A good illustration of this is
It is interesting to note
For example,…
To illustrate this,…
For instance,…
To demonstrate this,…
Take the case of,…
Such as,…
Consider the case/example of…
Typical of this
A typical/particular/key example
Including
Especially
Not least
In particular
In other words
Namely
Such as
As follows
Therefore,…
Consequently,…
Thus,…
This means that
Due to the fact that
This caused
As a result,…
Then
Consequence
This implies
In short
In all
In brief
In summary
[Other types of writing, not summary]
To conclude
In conclusion
It can be concluded from this
To sum up
Overall
On the whole
In short
In brief
So
To round off
Therefore
Others
Interestingly
Surprisingly
Usually
Sadly
Fortunately, Unfortunately
Honestly
In other words
That is
To put it more simply
Changing topic
Turning to
As regards
With regards to
As far as…is concerned
Moving on to
By contrast
Emphasizing
Mainly
Mostly
Usually
Unfortunately
Most often