STUDENT DEVELOPMENT CLUB #07: SECRETS OF BETTER ACADEMIC WRITING: How to Start a Sentence Using Addition Transitions

Introduction

A sentence can be started by a number of ways.  A good writer or speaker uses correct and appropriate sentence openers in order to deliver the message to the reader or listener effectively and professionally.

The following is one of the ways you can start a sentence as you write or speak:

ADDITION

You can start a sentence by introducing addition transitions:

Some of these transitions are:

Also, …………….

Apart from + Noun Phrase

Furthermore, …..

In addition to + Noun Phrase

Moreover, ……………

EXAMPLES:

Also the school has a good library for students.

Apart from having a good school library, the school has good laboratories for science subjects.

Furthermore the school has enough classrooms to accommodate enough number of students.

In addition, the school has a considerable number of teachers to help the better academic performance.

Moreover, the school is planning to build one computer room for students to study Computer Science and IT.

For More Practices Use Out-Come Oriented Teaching Resources

Why we should use the following resources? It's because they are found in our students' life and when they are used, they produce tremendous learning outcomes to them. These resources are:

Texts

Radio broadcasts

TV broadcasts

Audio or visual music

Audio or visual speeches

Audio or visual movies

By using one, or some of the above teaching resources, give the students the following tasks:

Task 1: Listening

Play an audio and let students identify what they have learnt.

Task 2: Speaking

Put students in pairs and guide them to practice orally what they have learnt. Make sure you give them clear instructions before they take over.

Task 3: Reading

Give students the text to read and ask them to identify sentences with the sentence patterns learnt.

Task 4: Writing

Give students writing task. Give them clear instructions on what to write about while making sure they write properly what you have taught them.

Note: To understand well if the selected materials contains the required information and target skills and whether they relevant culturally and contextually, the has to go throygh the materials by checking them. For example, if it is a part of the speech, the teacher has to listen to it until he/she is satisfied that the content is relevant and appropriate to the students.

Conclusion

Coordinators are necessary in connecting the ideas, statements, and actions of the same status, that is, the sentences in which the parts involved have equal regards. Thus, in the matters of such quality, students have to understand how to express themselves.

In order to help students become masters of these Secrets of Better Academic Writing, they should be more engaged by giving them more speaking and writing tasks or activities in which they will use these addition transitions to construct various sentences, paragraphs, and the whole composition.

Also check out how to study and teach:

Form I English Language Topics, at Form I Syllabus Topics

Form II English Language Topics, at Form II SyllabusTopics

Form III English Language Topics, at Form III SyllabusTopics

Form IV English Language Topics, at Form IV SyllabusTopics  

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