Using short stories to teach critical thinking and communication skills to tax students

D. Larry Crumbley and L. Murphy Smith

Accounting Education, 2000, vol. 9, issue 3, 291-296

Abstract: Researchers and numerous groups stress the importance of incorporating communication skills development into accounting curricula. Although a number of formal and informal techniques are available to instructors to incorporate writing skills into the classroom, many students have both oral and writing communication apprehension (CA). Short stories are a flexible teaching tool to overcome boredom both inside and outside the classroom. This scenario approach combines education and entertainment to make learning easier and interesting. Students can be required to develop short stories where accountants are the key characters and heroes. The better short stories may be placed on the Internet for future students to review. What may be wearisome and unexciting information can become meaningful through mystery, intrigue, humour, and adventure.

Keywords: Short Stories Critical Thinking Communication Skills Educational Novels Writing Communication Apprehension Scenario Principle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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