Do transitions matter for my grade?
Indirectly. Rubrics often list coherence or flow, and that is what transitions serve. What actually earns those points is whether the argument moves logically, which linking words can signal but cannot create.
This comes up on Transitions in Academic Writing, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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