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Writing - The Development Of A Necessary Professional Skill, Keith Howson, Lisa Barnes, Warrick R. Long
Writing - The Development Of A Necessary Professional Skill, Keith Howson, Lisa Barnes, Warrick R. Long
Warrick Long
- 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.
- 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.
- Findings. Accounting academics believe that students are not prepared to study accounting at university level with deficiencies in several areas, where writing and communication …