kumbachstrasse1 2 Posted May 10, 2016 Can "PA" be used in the essay once the full term, physician assistant, has been introduced in the text? Or must it be spelled out in full each time? Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reality Check 2 2,102 Posted May 10, 2016 I am not an English professor..... Most articles of a medical nature use the full name and then put the acronym into parentheses right after it and then use the acronym throughout the rest of the article. Ex - The length of a career for a Physician Assistant (PA) is ......... It works for all other kinds of acronyms. It doesn't appear unprofessional or unusual - it is our title. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fishbum 263 Posted May 10, 2016 Most articles of a medical nature use the full name and then put the acronym into parentheses right after it and then use the acronym throughout the rest of the article. Ex - The length of a career for a Physician Assistant (PA) is ......... That's how I did it. You'll thank yourself when you get finished and need to eliminate a couple of thousand characters! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rev ronin 4,371 Posted May 10, 2016 That's how I did it. You'll thank yourself when you get finished and need to eliminate a couple of thousand characters! Y'all don't know how easy you had it. The personal statement used to only allow for about 2/3rds of the current character limit, which made writing a good statement even more a matter of economizing characters. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reality Check 2 2,102 Posted May 10, 2016 Y'all don't know how easy you had it. The personal statement used to only allow for about 2/3rds of the current character limit, which made writing a good statement even more a matter of economizing characters. Then there are those of us who are Oh My Gosh Old and didn't write a personal statement and applied to one school at a time and our references were actually typed on paper - sometimes with a real typewriter!!!! Imagine that! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cop to pa 431 Posted May 10, 2016 Then there are those of us who are Oh My Gosh Old and didn't write a personal statement and applied to one school at a time and our references were actually typed on paper - sometimes with a real typewriter!!!! Imagine that! My last job including field training new Deputies. I had to teach them how to use (and even what was) a typewriter for our few carbon copy forms. Everyone struggled with why white out doesn't work if put on just the top copy of carbon copies. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reality Check 2 2,102 Posted May 10, 2016 If you get nostalgic, Tom Hanks invented an app call Hanxwriter that makes the keyboard on your tablet sound and look like a real typewriter. Pretty fun. I had to teach my kids what a dot matrix printer was and they howled. Then I talked about a typewriter - the nonelectric and electric kind. They were baffled. Our family's lake house has a rotary dial phone in it - they were so confused. And it was tethered to the wall and weighs about 10 lbs. I don't mind some technology and have my own addictions to my stupid smart phone but sometimes the clack of a typewriter would be kind of refreshing. I can still type close to 80 words a minute. God Bless my high school typing teacher. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fishbum 263 Posted May 10, 2016 This is starting to remind me of the old paper PCRs we used to use in EMS....you had to squeeze a narrative into about a quarter of a page. Everything was abbreviated until my state office of EMS came out with their list of approved abbreviations. After that, my narratives started reading like they were written by a very non-native author. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fishbum 263 Posted May 10, 2016 If you get nostalgic, Tom Hanks invented an app call Hanxwriter that makes the keyboard on your tablet sound and look like a real typewriter. That's awesome...the irony is palpable. I think I read somewhere that Cormac McCarthy never graduated from his typewriter...if it would make me write like that, I'd buy one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kumbachstrasse1 2 Posted May 12, 2016 Spaces....Can I get by single spacing between sentences in personal narrative? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rev ronin 4,371 Posted May 12, 2016 Spaces....Can I get by single spacing between sentences in personal narrative? Of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites