A Writer's Guide to Transitional Words and Expressions

by Victor C. Pellegrino

Book Overview

Essential, handy reference helps writers organize and connect ideas and reduce fragmented writing. Lists 1,000 words and phrase "connectors" in 15 categories. Color-coded and thumb-indexed. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945045026
• ISBN13: 9780945045021
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Maui Arthoughts Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

a writer's guide

I was really impressed with the format of this little book. It is so easy to go down through the tabs and find a transitional word or expression that just fits your needs. My High School children really enjoy sprucing up there papers with it also. I think it is a wonderful writing tool. It is a little book packed with big helpers.

Easy Transitional Guide

This guide is easy to use and makes writing effortless. It can also be a tool for middle and high school students. The book is filled with basic words that can be used in everyday writing. I have been using this guide for over eight years. I receive a lot of oohs and aahs from co workers on this handy resource. It is a must have for any school student and an addition to any library.

Great List of Words

This book contains many lists of words in an organized way for helping writers choose the right phrase or word for transitioning thoughts in writing. An excellent resource.

A handy, easy-to-use daily reference

Transition words and phrases are one of the areas where writers often get into ruts -- but not after you add this handy little reference to your desk! The book contains word lists based on the content of the transition, which, along with a thumb-tab page design, makes it easy to find an alternative phrasing. And if you often write articles or other materials that present quotes from sources, the book is worth the price just for its list of substitutes for the word "said." I know this is a reference I will use daily.

Enthusiastically recommended reference for writers.

A Writer's Guide To Transitional Words And Expressions by Victor Pellegrino is a very specific and highly useful reference for writers of all ages and skill levels, ranging from novelists to journalists. It is quite simply a collection of lists of English words and phrases. Each list is offered as an effective verbal transition mechanism for authors seeking the best phrase "To Indicate Time Order," "To Indicate a Sequence," "To Emphasize or Intensify," "To Substitute for 'Said'" and a dozen other lists. Perhaps most useful is A Writer's Guide To Transitional Words' unusual format layout, which makes an index tab for each list instantly visible upon opening to any page - which in turn makes finding the list one wants to consult a supremely quick and easy process. A Writer's Guide To Transitional Words is an enthusiastically recommended reference for professional writers of all walks, since the type of phrases it presents are not ones that are quite so easily gleaned from a common thesaurus. Also highly recommended is Victor Pellegrino's companion book A Writer's Guide To Using Eight Methods Of Transition.