{"id":1934,"date":"2020-01-12T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/?page_id=1934"},"modified":"2020-01-12T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T18:04:54","slug":"tcmos-abbreviations-chapter-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/writing\/my-blogs-on-chicago-manual-of-style\/tcmos-abbreviations-chapter-10\/","title":{"rendered":"TCMOS – Abbreviations – Chapter 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sunday, January 12, 2020 A short topic today. Abbreviations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Definitions<\/p>\n\n\n\n Acronym: <\/strong>Short forms based on initial letters and read\nas single word. Ex: AIDS, NASA, Scuba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Initialism: <\/strong>Terms read as series of letters. Ex: IRS, NBA<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contractions: <\/strong>Include first and last initial. Mr. Amt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Usage<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chicago recommends spelling out abbreviations unless present in a tables, bibliographies, and parenthetical references. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Format<\/p>\n\n\n\n My Takeaway<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style for a complete list of abbreviations broken by category. My takeaway from this chapter is the presence or omission of a period based on the case of the abbreviation (rule 1-3 above).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next week, also down to the basics. We\u2019ll\nlearn about parts of a book. Chapter 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: The Chicago Manual of Style<\/em>, SEVENTEEN\nEDITION.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday, January 12, 2020 Blog #10 of my learning from #TheChicagoManualOfStyle. A short topic today. Abbreviations. Definitions Acronym: Short forms based on initial letters and read as single word. Ex: AIDS, NASA, Scuba. Initialism: Terms read as series of letters. Ex: IRS, NBA Contractions: Include first and last initial. Mr. Amt. Usage Chicago recommends spelling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1809,"parent":1807,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6kaFb-vc","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934\/revisions\/1935"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Blog #10 of my learning from #TheChicagoManualOfStyle.<\/strong>
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