Writing Across the Accounting Curriculum: An Experiment
| Autor: | Diane A. Riordan, Michael P. Riordan, M. Cathy Sullivan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Higher education
Grammar business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Control (management) 050301 education Accounting Treatment and control groups Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 0502 economics and business ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Business Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) Financial accounting Business and International Management business Psychology 0503 education Curriculum Business communication 050203 business & management Sentence media_common |
| Zdroj: | Business Communication Quarterly. 63:49-58 |
| ISSN: | 1552-4191 1080-5699 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/108056990006300305 |
| Popis: | To improve the writing skills of accounting students, we developed a structured writing effectiveness program across three junior level courses in the accounting major: tax, cost, and financial accounting. Writing counted for approximately five percent of the grade in each course and accounting professors discussed grammar, sentence structure, and word choice. A consulting expert on writing also con tributed to the program. We tested the results of our program empirically through both a pretest/posttest design and a control/treatment group comparison. The results provide evidence that our writing across the curriculum project significantly improved the students' writing skills. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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