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

Subject: RE: Acronyms--How often do you spell them out?
From: "Melissa Nelson" <melmis36 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:18:50 -0400


I work for a DoD contractor now and the standard is to spell them out the
first time they are used and to include an acronym glossary at the end of
the document. If I pull out sections to make them into their own document,
then I will define the acronyms again, other than that I just define them on
the first use. The tricky part is sometimes I get the same acronym for two
different definitions, in that case I will define them both again if they
are close together in the document.

GLGA- Gotta Love Government Acronyms!

Melissa
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From: "Diana Ost" <Diana -dot- Ost -at- msmcorp -dot- com>
To: "Darges, Katherine"
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Subject: RE: Acronyms--How often do you spell them out?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:26:47 -0400
>When I worked for a Veterans Affairs project a couple of years ago, I
>only spelled them out on first use, because like you, I had a glossary
>at the end.
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>The users thought that was fine :-)
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>Subject: Acronyms--How often do you spell them out?
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>All,
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>I am editing a multi-section document, with each section 50 to 75 pages.
>The document was written by the Government for the Government. Phrases
>that get turned into acronyms are spelled out when they are first used,
>followed by their acronyms in parentheses - most in the first section.
>Appendix A is a complete acronym list - about 300 all together (this IS
>the Government, after all).
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>Would you re-identify the acronyms in each subsequent section as well as
>adding the new ones? Or, is once really enough, based on the fact that
>the readers of the document have all been involved in the project of
>which the document is a record?
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>Thanks!
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>V/r (that's "Very respectfully" in Government shorthand),
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>Katherine
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>Katherine Darges
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>National Security Programs Group
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