In the space provided, discuss the role of transitions in writing. assess when it is appropriate to use a transition and why transitions are important. give an example of at least two different kinds of transitions.

Transitions have a very important role in writing, they put your writing together and help you to achive your goal in writing. Whether it is to constrast information or even to persuade the reader agree with you in a point of view, transtions are there to help you. It is by making a logical connection between sentences that we can communicate an idea. Transions can create a relationship between ideas and link them together in order to guide the reader to your final goal. Here you can find some examples of transitions: "Although I feel hungry, I don't want to eat" here we have two contrasting ideas linked by the transition "although". Another example, "I really enjoed traveling to Rome my last vacation, I had so much visiting the museums. Besides, I got to visit the Colliseum and took some beautiful pictures. In this last example we are adding information with th transition "besides".

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)