Level: C1
July 28, 2026
Advanced Discourse Markers and Transition Cohesion
Lesson 5: Advanced Discourse Markers and Transition Cohesion.
1. Overview
Achieve academic and professional cohesion by deploying nuanced connectors that denote concession, cause, exemplification, and logical deduction.
2. Nuanced Concessive Markers
- Notwithstanding (e.g., Notwithstanding the market downturn, the strategy remained profitable).
- Albeit (e.g., He delivered an impressive, albeit unfinished, prototype).
- Granted that / Granted (e.g., Granted that the code is fast, it lacks documentation).
3. Reformulation and Exemplification
- Namely / Viz. (to specify precisely)
- To put it another way / In other words
- Be that as it may
4. Practice Exercise
Insert the most appropriate advanced discourse marker (Albeit, Notwithstanding, Namely):
1. The platform is exceptional, _____ somewhat overpriced.
2. _____ the intense heat in the server room, the hardware ran without interruption.
1. Overview
Achieve academic and professional cohesion by deploying nuanced connectors that denote concession, cause, exemplification, and logical deduction.
2. Nuanced Concessive Markers
- Notwithstanding (e.g., Notwithstanding the market downturn, the strategy remained profitable).
- Albeit (e.g., He delivered an impressive, albeit unfinished, prototype).
- Granted that / Granted (e.g., Granted that the code is fast, it lacks documentation).
3. Reformulation and Exemplification
- Namely / Viz. (to specify precisely)
- To put it another way / In other words
- Be that as it may
4. Practice Exercise
Insert the most appropriate advanced discourse marker (Albeit, Notwithstanding, Namely):
1. The platform is exceptional, _____ somewhat overpriced.
2. _____ the intense heat in the server room, the hardware ran without interruption.