Comment by rhizome
5 years ago
There are practices for informative writing that have been developed over decades and decades that recommend, among other things, defining initialisms on first use.
5 years ago
There are practices for informative writing that have been developed over decades and decades that recommend, among other things, defining initialisms on first use.
I read hundreds of pages of such writing a week and I can assure you that if this is a practice, it is not well observed by academics or engineers in the field.