The word "primer" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used as either a noun or an adjective. As a noun, a "primer" is a preparatory book that covers the basics of a subject. For example: "I used the algebra primer to learn the fundamentals of the subject before taking the course." As an adjective, "primer" means fundamental or introductory. For example: "This book provides a primer on the history of the United States."
Her research on terrorism and its causes culminated in her acclaimed 2006 book What Terrorists Want, described by the New York Times as an "essential primer on terrorism and how to tackle it".
In a joke that highlights his economic inexperience compared with Balls, Johnson said his first task in the new job would be "to pick up a primer of economics for beginners".
The event is also an excellent primer in breaking into the industry, including advice on how to work to a brief and a breakdown of who does what on a food shoot – and how to collaborate with them to ensure a successful result.
At the start of these fearfully anticipated Games it seemed almost enough that London had managed to get though this appalling game of global party charades not just unembarrassed but looking oddly and defiantly happy with itself after Danny Boyle's baroque and unapologetically intelligent left-leaning British history primer.
A selection of acids in solution follows (I know this cocktail primer doesn't sound too tasty, but bear with it).
If you're going to be down with the kids, ask one of your own to give you a basic primer in internet lore.
Still, as a primer on inequality the film is undoubtedly more accessible than the handful of titles already on the market, and I suspect it could well galvanise the young audience it seeks to attract.
His new book, "The Theoretical Minimum", co-written with George Hrabovsky, an amateur physicist, is a primer for readers who want to know how to think like a physicist.Can you outline what we know about string theory?The most important single thing about string theory is that it's a highly mathematical theory and the mathematics holds together in a very tight and consistent way.
This comprehensive document is more a "data-use primer" than a privacy policy.Along with other internet companies, Google mines the data it collects from users for two purposes.
Still it is the films themselves that yield the richest discussion an extended analysis of "Strangers on a Train" is a particular pleasure in a book that is less a primer than a post-viewing companion.
Was it enough to see the programme as no more than a primer for numbers and letters, however ingeniously they were put across?
