Posts Tagged as ‘abbreviation’

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Abbreviating Academic Degrees

Already on Mots Justes, an example has surfaced of just how evolutionary grammar and punctuation can be. Below you’ll see that I used no periods in the abbreviation of my academic degree.
Now, neither Diana Hacker’s Bedford Handbook for Writers nor The Associated Press Stylebook addresses this issue directly, but in both, entries discussing how to [...]