Linking terms
Linking terms are words or phrases that show the relationship between parts of your story.
Using linking terms in your article is useful to add ideas together, contrast them, or show the reason for a concept. They help the reader to read more efficiently, by creating ‘flow’. They are like bridges connecting different ideas and they can help associate thoughts that are introduced throughout your article.
Linking words are used in various ways including:
- Giving examples
- Adding information and ideas
- Summarizing
- Sequence information
- Showing a reason or a result
- Contrasting ideas
Here is an example:
To determine the correct temperature needed to obtain the desired results we ran a series of tests during different seasons. From these tests we observed that temperature oscillated between 5 ° and 7°, clarifying that the phenomenon could not happen in warmer countries.