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Writing - The Development Of A Necessary Professional Skill, Keith Howson, Lisa Barnes, Warrick R. Long

Warrick Long

1. Purpose. This paper sets out to further evaluate the ability of university level students to write and to suggest some strategies to address this area.
2. Design/methodology/approach. An online questionnaire was circulated to 808 accounting academics in Australian universities of which 162 useable responses were received. These responses were followed up with semi-structured interviews of a smaller group of eight academics from five different universities to further explore key issues raised in the questionnaire.
3. Findings. Accounting academics believe that students are not prepared to study accounting at university level with deficiencies in several areas, where writing and communication …