Making effective paragraph transitions – 3

2. Implicit or intrinsic transition hooks (Continuation)

Last week, Part 2 of this series started discussing implicit or intrinsic paragraph transition hooks. Unlike explicit or extrinsic hooks, this second type of paragraph transition device makes use of the natural progression or "flow" of the ideas themselves to link paragraphs logically. Instead of using the usual transitional phrases and conjunctive adverbs, they employ a semantic play on key words or ideas in the body of the exposition itself. This involves repeating a key word or phrase used in the preceding paragraph and making it the takeoff point for the succeeding paragraph, or else using a synonym or words similar to that key word or phrase to do the transition job.