A new approach to improving and evaluating student workplace writing skills

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages 115-150

  Lynn, Susan A ^a   Vermeer, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

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EID: 80054859296     PISSN: 10854622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1085-4622(08)09006-8     Document Type: Article

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