Most arguments are organized by order of importance, starting with the least important evidence and saving the most convincing reason and evidence for last. (For more on order of importance, see “Use Order of Importance to Emphasize a Point” in Chapter 3.)
Use transitions to move your readers smoothly from one supporting reason to another. Here are some of the transitions you might use in your argument.
Common Transitions in Argument
| above all | more important |
| also | most important |
| best of all | one fact / another fact |
| especially | one reason / another reason |
| for example | one thing / another thing |
| in addition | remember |
| in fact | the first (second, third) point |
| in particular | worst of all |
| in the first (second, third) place |