The Accounting Review Vol. 31 No. 3 1956
A PRACTITIONER'S PLEA FOR MORE TRAINING IN WRITTEN ENGLISH.
Abstract
The article presents a practitioners plea for more training in written English in United States. According to the author, in last few years he has seen a good many expressions in print, not only from the public accounting profession but from other professions, businesses, and from academicians, complaining of the almost universal inability of the college graduate of today to express himself either in writing or orally. The author says that the present time not enough is being done in the university world to bring home to the students how important good writing is, and to teach them how to become adept in it. He is convinced that the jobs not something which can be or should be handled by the faculty members in the schools of business administration who are concerned with the teaching of business subjects, but rather should be turned over to specialists in English teaching. Provision should be made in every required course leading up to a Bachelors of Business Administration degree for at least a full two semester course in English composition and style, consisting of intensive writing and criticism, writing and criticism, and more writing and criticism.
- DOI
- 10.2308/tar-7059539
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 358-362
- Language
- en
- Sources
- openalex crossref