Transition words or connectors within as well as between sentences are an essential component of any composition. Without these verbal signals, a text may lose its defining feature: textuality.
Verbal ties bind the text together by creating bonds of meaning. A sequence of sentences that lacks appropriate connecters may not properly hang together. Consider sequence A (below).
While the first sentence in A presents a positive achievement of the PTI government, the second sentence abruptly switches to one of its weaknesses.
Similarly, in B, the first of the two sentences mentions a praiseworthy quality, but the immediately following statement veers off into a sharply critical direction.
In both examples (A and B), the common problem is the absence of an appropriate cue or signal that would indicate to the reader how they should navigate from sentence to sentence.
As a result, the integrity or intactness of the text is undermined and the overall impact that the writer may hope to cast on the reader is compromised.
Here's another version of the same passage with all appropriate transition words tucked into place.
If you compare the first version with the second, you will observe a significant improvement in coherence and bonding among sentences.
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