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Writing support for your research: Word lists

This guide is intended to help AgriScience students with academic writing

Word lists

This page contains choices of active verbs, transition words and more that can assist you in your writing.

Active verbs that describe phenomena

Common word mixups

Active verbs that describe work and analytical thinking

Transition words

Causality	Emphasis	Amplification
Accordingly	Above all	Again
Consequently	Certainly	Also
For this reason	Clearly	Apparently
Hence	Indeed	Besides
Therefore	In fact	Equally important
Thus	In short	Finally
	Obviously	First, Second, etc.
Intention	Of course	Further
For this purpose		In addition
In order to do this	Closure	Moreover
To this end	In conclusion
With this in mind	In sum	Detail
	On the whole	Especially
Location	To summarize	In particular
Beyond		In regard to
Here	Similarity	Namely
Nearby	Likewise	Specifically
Opposite	Similarly	To enumerate
Overlying (underlying)
There	Time	Comparison/Contrast
To the right (left)	Afterward	However
	At the same time	In contrast
Concession	Before	In relation to
At any rate	Earlier	Nevertheless
At least	Eventually	On the other hand
	In the meantime	Still
Example	Sometimes
For example	Later	Interpretation
For instance	Next	Fortunately
To demonstrate	Preceding this	Interestingly
To illustrate	Simultaneously	Significantly
	Soon	Surprisingly