Transition Sentences - What They Are, and How to Make Them
Transition sentences are a little tricky to master, but once you learn the "trick", your problems will be over. Transition sentences are the bridge that connects one paragraph to another in a smooth and orderly fashion so that your reader won't feel jolted as they climb the stairs of the story.
Transitions are most commonly used in the first sentence of every new paragraph (although they can be used as the last sentence in a paragraph). By the time you finish reading this article, you will understand how to create your own smooth "bridge "or "stairsteps" with ease.
Look at this illustration in To Make a Difference. The scene describes tough, city kids from slum areas who are attending Sunday School. There is a phrase in the first sentence of the second paragraph that ties these two paragraphs together. See if you can find it before I tell you what it is:
"The rebels folded their arms across their chests in defiance and slouched in the metal chairs. Their body language said, I refuse to fit into your boring, round hole! I'm only here to get away from home for two hours.
By a show of hands, these 13 young people, ages 12 to 14, testified to suffering 41 collective hard knocks in life. Five had personally witnessed a shooting