Many IELTS students become obsessed with 'linkers' - words or phrases that link ideas together in a paragraph e.g firstly, secondly, furthermore, moreover. There is nothing wrong with using linkers, and they can certainly help you to write good paragraphs.
However, linkers become a problem when they are the only thing that students care about. Examiners care much more about the content between the linkers.
As an experiment, try writing a paragraph without linking words. Can you still make your paragraph coherent? Note: you probably don't use many linkers when you write in your own language.
Source: simon ielts
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- someone obsessed with something
- there is nothing wrong with doing something
- can certainly help to do something
- something becomes a problem
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