The phrase "and so contributes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something plays a role in or adds to a particular outcome or effect.
Example: "The new policy is designed to improve employee satisfaction, and so contributes to higher productivity levels."
Alternatives: "thus adds" or "therefore plays a part".
Many others, such as Dawkins and myself, fear that the evasiveness of this gambit fuels suspicion and so contributes to ongoing confusion in the US.
Just as the car reduced our need to walk (and so contributes to obesity) and the calculator reduced our need to manipulate numbers (and so contributes to ignorance of mathematics), instant access to information will reduce our need to learn information.
Mr. Ferroukhi, who wrote the script with Alain-Michel Blanc, deftly interweaves their stories with the adventures of the fictional Younes, and so contributes a worthy and interesting chapter to the tradition of World War II dramas of conscience.
Seals indicate heraldry before the earliest rolls of arms and are an original source for armorial bearings, which thereby enables the historian to trace the distinctions or alliances between various families and so contributes to genealogy.
Only a year later, he was carrying around a dog-eared copy of "Cicero's Orations" that he would read aloud, saying, "It exercises my Lungs, raises my Spirits, opens my Pores, quickens the Circulations and so contributes much to Health".
Russell's leading rival for the title of most priapic laureate, Elias Canetti – who, it should be noted, became British and so contributes to the UK tally – wrote callously in a memoir about his former lover, Iris Murdoch, who had depicted him as the sinister enchanter figure in her novels.
Mr Byers said: 'Knowledgeable consumers stimulate businesses to innovate and so contribute to competitiveness.
Might it even suggest that Syria-Iran political and cultural relations helped sour sectarian relations and so contribute to the war?
Ms. Camp said the Barnes trustees were "not contemplated as a fund-raising board" and so contributed to the financial crunch.
Both the heating, which is normally fuelled by coal, and the chemical reaction it induces release large amounts of carbon dioxide, and so contribute to global warming.
The end of assignment removed the chief virtue of transportation, from the colonists' viewpoint, and so contributed to a vigorous movement against its continuation.
