Words to strengthen your stance:

Powerful verbs Descriptive adverbs Transitional words Transitional phrases

Introductory words and phrases:

Undoubtedly Obviously Absolutely Unquestionably Therefore Undeniably Hence Thus Highly effective Illustrates Proves Maintain Supports Emphasizes Adamantly

Supporting opinions and putting ideas in order:

Firstly Moreover Finally Secondly Similarly Further Furthermore Lastly Later In addition Afterwards In a similar way Equally important Likewise Initially

Introducing details and explaining ideas:

For example According to This shows For instance Notably Emphasizes In other words In fact Illustrates Namely As evidence Most importantly Such as In support of this provokes

Cause and Effect:

Since If...then As a result of Hence Because of Caused by Resulted in For that reason Due to This results in Lead to Thus For this reason Consequently Brought about So Therefore Accordingly Gave rise to Made possible

Compare and Contrast:

Similarly Likewise As well as Compared to In the same way Conversely On the other hand Contrasting In spite of Although As opposed to Despite Even though Rather than However

Concluding words and phrases:

Without a doubt On the whole For the reasons above Obviously Consequently This evidence points to In conclusion In summary Unquestionably As proven To be sure Undeniably As illustrated As you can see Was responsible for