Writing Requirements in Financial Accounting Courses

Phillips, Mary Jones; Davis, C

doi:10.1080/08832323.1991.10117458

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“…Accounting majors were the other extreme, reporting the weakest skills and smallest gains in both our descriptive and multivariate analyses. There is much evidence that suggests writing outcomes are not what they should be in the accounting realm (e.g., Phillips & Davis, 1991). Faris et al (1999) studied accounting students and their perceived anxiety in writing, finding these majors have bigger average WAT (Writing anxiety test) scores than other majors, 71.15 versus 67.07.…”

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The Self-Rated Writing Skills of Business Majors: Graduating Perceptions and Collegiate Improvement

Routon

Marinan

Bontrager

2021

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

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We analyze the self-rated writing skills of graduating business majors and perceptions on how much these skills changed during college. Subjective skill measures may be good proxies of objective skills, and affect outcomes such as career goals, job applications, and graduate school enrollment. The sample includes 436,370 students from 619 different institutions. On average and all else equal, business majors are estimated to be 17.6% less likely to report high writing skills at graduation when compared with other students and 11.5% less likely to report high gains in these skills during college. Average differences across disciplines are often large.

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