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Linking Phrases: Connecting Your Reasons Smoothly — Homework
Practice choosing the right linking phrase, then upgrade your own draft.
- 1.Which linking phrase fits best: "Longer recess helps kids focus. ___, test scores might even improve." Choose "as a result" or "on the other hand."
- 2.Add a linking phrase connecting a reason to its evidence in your draft.
- 3.Add a linking phrase introducing your counterargument paragraph.
- 4.Why is it a problem to use the exact same linking phrase five times in one essay?
- 5.Read your revised draft aloud and note one place where a new linking phrase made the essay easier to follow.
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