TIP For more on order of importance and time order, see pages 78 and 79.
Illustration often uses order of importance, saving the most powerful example for last. This strategy is used in the paragraph and essay models on pages 135–37. Or, if the examples are given according to when they happened, it might be organized by time order.
Transitions in illustration let readers know that you are introducing an example or moving from one example to another.
| also | first, second, and so on | for instance | in addition |
| another | for example | for one thing/for another | the most/the least |
| finally | one example/ |