Abbreviating, Capitalizing, and Using Numbers

Abbreviating, Capitalizing, and Using Numbers

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Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
Writing well is not just about constructing logical sentences. It also involves the correct use of abbreviations, capital letters, and numbers in your business writing. Knowing how to use them consistently is a strong asset to have as part of your communication skills. In this course, you’ll learn the basic rules of capital letters, abbreviations, and numbers. You’ll learn how to correctly abbreviate titles, names, locations, and countries, as well as how to capitalize direct quotes, titles, names of organizations, and product names, among other elements. In addition, you’ll explore other key elements for better writing – the forms and uses of numbers with dates and time, money, fractions, and symbols.

Target Audience
Anyone who wants to refresh or refine their basic business grammar skills for any kind of business writing, from e-mail and memos to reports and presentations

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.6

Lesson Objectives

Abbreviating, Capitalizing, and Using Numbers

recognize the correct application of basic rules for abbreviating words

identify correct abbreviations of given words

recognize the correct application of basic rules for capitalizing words

identify appropriate capitalization for headings, lists, and colons

recognize how to capitalize places and events correctly

recognize the correct application of basic rules for using numbers

identify the correct use of numbers in given examples

use abbreviation, capitalization, and number rules in written communications

Course Number:
acm_04_a03_bs_enus

Expertise Level
Everyone