Great ways to use essay connectives easily

These connectives can be utilised to give more information. Let’s imagine that you are writing an essay on Andrew Marvell’s poem ‘To His Coy Mistress.’ You could write:

“The use of hyperbole in line 13 and 14 where Marvell suggests spending one hundred years to praise his mistress’ eyes indicates a patriarchal view that women are weak and vain. In line 15 and 16 Marvell continues in this vain by suggesting that each breast should be worshipped for two hundred years thus perpetrating his view of his mistress.”

The sample is without connectives and as it stands it is not linked. However, if we put in an adding connective it flows much better.

“The use of hyperbole in line 13 and 14 where Marvell suggests spending one hundred years to praise his mistress’ eyes indicates a patriarchal view that women are weak and vain. Moreover, in line 15 and 16 Marvell continues in this vain by suggesting that each breast should be worshipped for two hundred years thus perpetrating his view of his mistress.”

Can you see how the second sample offers a piece of critical analysis and then signals to the reader by the use of the adding connective ‘moreover’ that there is more information to follow?

Other adding connectives that you might use would be:

• In addition.
• Also.
• Equally important.
• Similarly.
• Again.
• Likewise.