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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Abbreviations and Acronyms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn when and how to use common abbreviations and acronyms.
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Other

Acronym Finder: Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Journalists are inundated with acronyms. This site contains 240,000 of them and their meanings. Search tool allows you to enter the exact acronym or the first letter. You can even enter a keyword and look for acronyms that include it....
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English Club

English Club: Abbreviations: Acronyms

For Students 9th - 10th
This EnglishClub tutorial defines the term acronym, a type of abbreviation, and then provides several examples of acronyms.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms including definitions for each. It also provides links to lists of abbreviations, etc. by category including Titles of Literary Works, Books of the Bible, Legal Terms and...
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English Club

English Club: Abbreviations: Shortenings

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub reference page provides the definition for "abbreviation" and then provides a chart with examples of abbreviations.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Abbreviations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site focuses on abbreviations including definitions, acronyms and initialisms, abbreviations for courtesy titles and academic degrees, Latin abbreviations, and other common abbreviations including time and dates, places, and units...
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Other

The 101 Series: E Mail Lingo

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the 101 Series covers many of the abbreviations and acronyms that have been developed to save typing and emoticons to clarify the tone of the text.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Periods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An excellent outline of the usage and rules concerning the "period" in English punctuation. Includes guidelines about acronyms, abbreviations, sentence ending, and more.
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Harvard University

Harvard Writing Center: Tips on Grammar, Punctuation and Style

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rather than lists of rules, this site provides practical advice on the use of commas, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, abbreviations, acronyms, split infinitives, "this," "that," italics, and underlining. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.2
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech: Parentheses and Rules for Use

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains five rules for correctly using parentheses and a section regarding capitalization within parentheses. Examples are included for each of the rules.
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English Club

English Club: When Do We Use Capital Letters

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub resource provides eleven instances in which using capital letters is necessary. Several examples are provided with each of the eleven rules.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook:capitalization:call Letters of Radio and Television Stations

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains that call letters for radio and television stations are always in all capital letters and provides examples.

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