Teaching the Tax Memo Genre with a Writing about Writing (WAW) Approach
Michal Horton
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Betty Bin Xing
Baylor University
Abstract
This essay shares a WAW reflection assignment that supports the development of writing knowledge for tax memos and for the accounting profession; it is taught in an undergraduate tax class for accounting students. Students develop an external tax memo and, following submission of that assignment, they write about their own writing in their completed memo. The emphasis on the WAW reflection is paragraphing, as this aspect of writing is highly valued in accounting and especially needed for an effective tax memo. Accounting education has long called for more writing-emphasis instruction in accounting courses, and this assignment answers that call.
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- Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments
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- 2026-01-30
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- 10.31719/pjaw.v10i1.222
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