Analytical Thesis Statements. Adapted from Writing Analytically by Rosenwasser and Stephen. To analyze something is to ask what that something means. An analytical essay answers how something does what it does or why it is as it is. Therefore, a thesis statement in an analysis paper should be answering a HOW or WHY. question.
Guidelines for Using Acronyms. 1  Capitalize acronyms, and do not use periods. When acronyms become integrated into the language as common nouns (for example, laser, radar, or scuba), they are no longer capitalized.  When using an acronym the first time, spell the phrase out and follow it with the acronym in parentheses.
Acronym is a hypernym of initialism; acronym was coined in the 40's, initialism in the 60's. Abbreviation is a hypernym of both and has been around as a word much longer. The main distinction of an acronym and initialism is that they compress multiple words, where an abbreviation can be just one word.