Abbreviations in Business

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Abbreviations in Business Technical Writing
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• Abbreviations are appropriate in documents where
  the emphasis is on communicating data in the
  briefest form.
• Business forms
• Catalogs
• Email messages
• Memos
• Letters between business offices, etc.

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• Where a more formal style is appropriate, use
  abbreviations sparingly. When in doubt, spell it
  out!

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• Abbreviations that are always acceptable even in
  the most formal contexts.
• Mr., Ms., Mrs., Jr., Sr., Ph.D., etc.
• a.m., p.m., CST, EDT
• NAACP, SEC

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• Abbreviations to be used only on business forms,
  tables, lists, narrow columns, and in informal
  documents
• Days of the week
• Names of the months,
• Geographic names e.g. states
• Units of measure