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Bookmark or Share- For a deceased person, do we use 'the late' or 'late'?The usage is typically "the late."I haven't heard it used without a determiner. Here are some quotations from the OED's definition of "late" (III.2.a(a)) showing this usage is typical and well-attested (entries with "a" or "my" instead of "the" removed.
- Differences between summary, abstract, overview, and synopsisI like Professor David Barnhill's argument for precis: "A precis is a brief summary of a larger work. The term "abstract" has the same meaning and is much more common, but I prefer the term precis because of its relation to the word "precise," and because of the way the word is pronounced: "pray-see."
- Difference between "Introduction" and "Background summary" in report ...An introduction is the teaser for your background summary. It is meant to be short and attention grabbing, and make the reader actually want to read further into the background summary. A background summary goes in depth, while a introduction does just that... introduce the reader to what will come. Example Intro
- Once you've introduce an acronym / initialism should you always use it?When writing a large document with technical terminology (in this example I'll use 'Content Management System') I would use the full term itself and alongside introduce the acronym / initialism: ...
- Is an indentation needed for a new paragraph?Is an indentation (Tab button in Word) needed for a new paragraph when you start one? I was told to do that a long time ago but 3 years after I stopped doing it and have done it since.
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