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Transition Words For Your Essays

Transition Signals:

Transitions are words and phrases that connect ideas and show how they are related.

To repeat and ideas just stated:

In other words,

That is,

To repeat,

Again,

To illustrate an idea:

For example,

For instance,

In particular,

To illustrate,

In this manner,

Thus,

To announce a contrast, a change in direction:

Yet,

However,

Still,

Nevertheless,

On the other hand,

In contrast,

Instead of,

On the contrary,

Conversely,

Notwithstanding,

In spite of this,

Time:

At once,

In the interim,

At length,

Immediately,

At last,

Meanwhile,

In the meantime,

Presently,

At the same time,

Shortly,

In the end,

Temporarily,

Thereafter,

To restate an idea more precisely:

To be exact,

To be specific,

To be precise,

More specifically,

More precisely,

To mark a new idea as an addition to what has been said:

Similarly,

Also,

Too,

Besides,

Furthermore,

Further,

Moreover,

In addition,

To show cause and effect:

As a result,

For this reason,

Thereafter,

Hence,

Consequently,

Accordingly,

Conclusion:

In short,

To conclude,

In brief,

On the whole,

In summary,

To sum up,

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Important

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Reblogging again bc I need this at the moment

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If you’re reading this you are cute. You are strong. You are sexy. You are caring. You are smart. You are going to get through the hard times. You are growing. You are learning. You are wonderfully interesting.

You are enough.

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ART PRINTS BY LIAM SMITH

You, Me, the Moon and the Stars

Launch

Red Riding Hood

Night Owl

Reach For The Stars

Also available as canvas prints, T-shirts, All over print shirts, Phone cases, Throw pillows, Tapestries and More!

#tbt to when the #dreadlocks were flying and @urbanruben was painting his #artprize7 mural like a madman. Vote code 62108 if you love the goldfish at Front Street and Vernon intersection.

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"[Artworks] Rather than giving back what we already can know without benefit of them, serve instead as instruments of self-revelation." Arthur C. Danto This painting of a local spot in Grand Rapids means more to me than simply "a painting of a bridge I walked over with @urbanruben and my friend and family." It is an opportunity for self-knowledge. We are not simply voyeurs in the world, our thoughts become actions that are imprinted in the consciousness of other people. Viewing an artwork like Ruben's that reflect the POV of someone unfamiliar with an area is an awesome opportunity for people who encounter these things every day to reconsider what the objects - bridge, clock tower, school - mean to them, and what this representation stirs in their hearts.

My Boston a Terrier Oscar in front of @urbanruben mural "Knowledge" in Lake Worth, Florida. Come see this AMAZING man at work all next week in Grand Rapids on his site-specific graffiti mural for #ArtPrize, a city-wide art competition. Yours truly will also be buzzing around making a general nuisance of herself as always, aka curating. Come see us! Watch a monumental street artist turn an underpass at Front Avenue under US-131 into a powerful underwater adventure through the history of street art. You won't be disappointed. FOR TEAL. For real. For teal, too, because underwater scenes require a lot of that color 😁🌴🌴🌴🌴FLA in MI

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How to graciously say no to anyone

“There is no money in answering letters.” —Groucho Marx

A couple of years ago, I was getting sent this article, “Creative People Say No,” at least twice a day. The idea was that creative geniuses say “no” to a lot of requests (like, a psychology professor researching processes of creative genius) in order to get their work done, so if you want to be a creative genius, you have to say no a lot so you can get your work done.

A bunch of people asked me what I thought about it, and I said, “It’s good advice for the rich and famous. Creative people say yes until they have enough work that they can say no.”

Ian Bogost explains it nicely, here:

[Y]ou have to say ‘yes’ for a long while before you can earn the right to say ‘no.’ Even then, you usually can’t say 'no’ at whim. By the time you can say 'no’ indiscriminately, then you’re already so super-privileged that being able to say 'no’ is not a prerequisite of success, but a result of it.

There was a little index card in the back of Steal Like An Artist that didn’t make it into the book that sums up my own point of view: “Be as generous as you can, but selfish enough to get your work done.”

Of course, sometimes you just have to say no for whatever reason. For that, Alexandra Franzen suggests this format in her piece, “How To Graciously Say No To Anyone”:

Hey [name],

Thanks for your note. I’m so proud of you for ___—and I’m flattered that you’d like to bring my brain into the mix.

I need to say “no,” because ___.

But I would love to support you in a different way. [Offer an alternative form of support here]

Thank you for being such a wonderful ___. I am honored to be part of your world.

[A few closing words of encouragement, if you’d like]

[Your name here]

Images above from The Ransom Center, Tim Ferriss, @maudnewton, and my letters archive.

#how to say no