Chapter 61: Abbreviations and Numbers

CHAPTER 61
Abbreviations and Numbers

ANY TIME YOU LOOK UP AN ADDRESS, you see an abundance of abbreviations and numbers, as in the following movie theater listing from a Google map of Berkeley, California:

Oaks Theater, 1875 Solano Ave, Berkeley, CA

Abbreviations and numbers allow writers to present detailed information in a small amount of space. In academic writing, abbreviations and numbers follow conventions that vary from field to field.