![]() If you tell a reader that something "is important to note," make sure there's a very good chance the reader would not have realized this if you hadn't pointed it out. ![]() This is not to say that such phrases never can be used in an essay. Another important aspect to realize is that. ![]() Velcro transitions insult and bore the reader by pointing out the obvious, generally in a canned and pompous way. The human voice has been drained off, and what's left is hollow language. In the absence of genuine intellectual connection, such efforts at transition all sound manufactured. A strip of Velcro on a cracked wall will not fool us into thinking we are standing somewhere safe neither will a Velcro transition persuade an essay's readers that they are in the hands of a serious writer with something serious to say. No reader will be fooled by such shoddy craft, which is designed to help the writer finesse the essay's flaws, rather than to illuminate for the reader the connections among the essay's ideas and textual evidence. Keep in mind that although transitional words and phrases can be useful, even gracious, they never should be applied to force a vagrant paragraph into a place where it does not, structurally, belong. ![]()
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