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Writing Across the Accounting Curriculum: An Experiment

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

Michael P. Riordan

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

M. Cathy Sullivan

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia

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.

Key Words: Writing across the curriculum • writing in accounting • assessment

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