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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    The length should conform to readers' expectations of a short, but useful and complete, summary of the topic. Few well-written leads will be shorter than about 100 words. The leads in most featured articles contain about 250 to 400 words. Lead sections that reflect or expand on sections in other articles are discussed at Summary style.

  3. Executive summary - Wikipedia

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    An executive summary (or management summary, sometimes also called speed read) is a short document or section of a document produced for business purposes. It summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it all.

  4. Necessity is the mother of invention - Wikipedia

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    The connection of mother and necessity is documented in Latin and in English in the 16th century: William Horman quoted the Latin phrase Mater artium necessitas ("The mother of invention is necessity") in 1519; [7] [page needed] Roger Ascham said "Necessitie, the inventour of all goodnesse" in 1545.

  5. Necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

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    In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a conditional or implicational relationship between two statements. For example, in the conditional statement: "If P then Q", Q is necessary for P, because the truth of Q is guaranteed by the truth of P.

  6. Paragraph - Wikipedia

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    In word processing and desktop publishing, a hard return or paragraph break indicates a new paragraph, to be distinguished from the soft return at the end of a line internal to a paragraph. This distinction allows word wrap to automatically re-flow text as it is edited, without losing paragraph breaks.

  7. Necessary - Wikipedia

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    Necessary and sufficient condition, in logic, something that is a required condition for something else to be the case; Necessary proposition, in logic, a statement about facts that is either unassailably true (tautology) or obviously false (contradiction) Metaphysical necessity, in philosophy, a truth which is true in all possible worlds

  8. Wikipedia:WikiProject Short descriptions - Wikipedia

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    However, when exporting a modified short description to Wikidata it is necessary to go to Wikidata and manually edit the description there to change the first uppercase letter to lower case. Shortdesc helper will provide a standardised edit summary describing the edit. A custom edit summary can be added using the "summary" button.

  9. Topic sentence - Wikipedia

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    The topic sentence acts as a kind of summary, and offers the reader an insightful view of the paragraph's main ideas. [3] More than being a mere summary of a paragraph, however, a topic sentence often provides a claim or an insight directly or indirectly related to the thesis. It adds cohesion to an academic text and helps organize ideas not ...