Concrete details are facts, direct quotes, examples, and plot references.
- Transitions
- For example...
- For instance...
- To illustrate...
- Namely...
- thoughts, analysis, opinions, observations, insights, reflections, reactions, etc.
- Begin your commentary sentences with signal phrases like these.
- This shows that...
- This proves that...
- This illustrates...
- This indicates...
- For your secondary commentary sentences, use these phrases.
- This also shows that...
- This also proves that...
- This is significant because...
- This is important because...
- This is because...
- This is interesting/telling because...
- Concluding sentence transitions
- All in all...
- Therefore it is evident that...
- As a result...
- With that in mind...
- In conclusion...
- As one can see...
- Therefore...
