ראשי תיבות ונוטריקונים
שימוש בראשי תיבות
ראשי תיבות נוצרים מחיבור האותיות הראשונות של כמה מילים, כאשר ביחד הם יוצרים מילה חדשה. את חלקם של הקיצורים הללו מבטאים כסדרת אותיות (לדוגמא, V-A-T או U-S-A) ואילו מחלקם יוצרים מילים חדשות (לדוגמא TIP או SCUBA). אם משתמשים בהם בצורה מובנת, ראשי תיבות יכולים להיות נוחים מאוד הן לכותב והן לקורא.
Here are some general guidelines for using them successfully:
- The first time in a text that you use an acronym, you should spell it out, so that your reader knows what the acronym stands for. Put the words in brackets, following the acronym’s first appearance in your text, as below, The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) is expected to give a press release.
- Modern usage suggests that full stops between the letters of an acronym are no longer required. Just remember to capitalize all the letters in acronyms.
- If your document is very long, it is helpful to your readers if you occasionally repeat the definition of any acronym you are using, to remind them of its meaning and save them time in looking back through your text for the original definition.
- If your document contains many acronyms, then prepare a glossary with their definitions listed. However, you should still remember to define the acronym within the text, the first time it is used.
- Below are a few commonly used acronyms with their definitions.
VAT PLC NATO IDF IT CEO CFO NDA NBA UN HR NGO WIP CNN QA TQA HTML IRS ASAP CIA USB NP | Value Added Tax Public Limited Company North Atlantic Treaty Organization Israel Defense Forces Information Technology Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer Non-Disclosure Agreement National Basketball Association United Nations Human Resources Non-Governmental Organization Work In Process Cable News Network Quality Assurance Total Quality Assurance Hyper-Text-Markup Language Internal Revenue Service As Soon As Possible Central Intelligence Agency Universal Serial Bus No Problem |
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