Lesson 30: Making Links Between Studies

Making links between studies is another skill in writing research or particularly in writing review of related literature. This skill needs a thorough analysis from the research articles, literature, abstracts and studies. After reading the literature reviews, abstracts and studies comprehending and analyzing them are the next steps in order to decide whether the findings of those materials have linked to your studies.

Here are the Effective Transitions in Research Manuscripts Writing introduced by Panter, M. (2020)

Introductory words or phrases

The transitional devices written below are frequently used to linked one study to another, one finding to another, one theory to another. However, these are also transitional devices that would help to emphasize disagreement or in opposition thereto.

I want to...

• Add

• Compare

• Contrast

• Provide an alternative

• Emphasize

• Conclude

Informal Transition

• And,

• besides,

• also

• But,

• yet

• Or

• Especially

• So

Formal transition

• In addition,

• additionally,

• moreover,

• furthermore

• In contrast,

• conversely,

• however,

• nevertheless,

• on the one hand/on the other hand

• In sum,

• in summary,

• in conclusion,

• thus,

• therefore,

• consequently,

• taken together

Here are the examples of the transitional words used to link one study to another by Mahmood (2016).

Agreements

• Similarly, author B points to…

• Likewise, author C makes the case that…

• Author D also makes this point…

• Again, it is possible to see how author E agrees with author D…

Disagreements

• However, author B points to…

• On the other hand, author C makes the case

• Conversely, Author D argues…

• Nevertheless, what author E suggests argues the study of…