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Re: Acronyms--How often do you spell them out?

Subject: Re: Acronyms--How often do you spell them out?
From: "David Castro" <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Darges, Katherine" <katherine -dot- darges -at- defensegp -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:38:05 -0400

On 7/31/06, Darges, Katherine <katherine -dot- darges -at- defensegp -dot- com> wrote:

Phrases
that get turned into acronyms are spelled out when they are first used,
followed by their acronyms in parentheses [...]
Would you re-identify the acronyms in each subsequent section as well as
adding the new ones?

I just worked on acronyms for my government document earlier today
(175 for a 256-page document). I'm going to be going back through the
document to make sure that only the first instance of each one is
spelled out. The document is a mish-mash of content from different
engineers, and so things are very inconsistent right now.

So, first time only is the rule with the DoN document I'm working on.

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-David Castro
thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com
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