How to conect sentences

One way is to use a pronoun (it, they) or pro-form (this method, these systems) to glue the sentences together:

• Many researchers have suggested ways of reducing cost without affecting the quality of the image. These methods rely on data structures built during a preprocessing step.
• It has received much attention over the past few decades due to its biodegradable properties, which offer important economic benefits.

Signalling sentence connector

Another way is to use a signalling sentence connector to indicate the relationship between one sentence and the next, or one part of a sentence and the next.

Cause

Therefore

Due to (the fact that)

due to (the fact that)

In part due to this, political theorist Michael Freeden says that policy issues are essentially contestable, meaning there are many valid but mutually excusive ways to think about them.

on account of

in view of (the fact that)

as

because

since

Results

• therefore
• consequently
• hence
• as a result (of which)
• which is why
• so

Contrast/Difference

• however
• whereas
• but
• on the other hand

while

While in the hard sciences there is typically only one canonical explanation to a particular phenomenon at any one point in time, in the social sciences there are typically many different contemporary explanations

• by contrast

Unexpectedness

Although

although it was difficult, a solution was found

Even though

Though

Despite

In spite of

Regardless of

Notwithstanding

nevertheless

however

yet

nonetheless

even so

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