In his breakthrough article “Inventing the University”, David Bartholomae (1986) discusses the problem undeveloped writers have when it’s time to write for a class, they must use the discourse of the scholarly community they are speaking to. Particularly, Bartholomae goes to say that a student, “have to appropriate a specialized discourse, and they have to do this as though they were easily and comfortably one with their audience, as though they were members of the academy, or historians or anthropologists or economists” (p. 4-5). Basically, Bartholomae is saying that as students, you must feel one with the audience as if you were a part of the discourse community. It’s something like the statement fake it to you make it. For this reason, as a student, it’s very essential to know how write in this field by being able to articulate questions, create, examine, and combine information, recognize sources of information, assess the scope of study, reexamine questions based on the degree and nature of the research assignment, select the most suitable investigative data (surveys, interviews, experiments) and research tools (periodical indexes, databases, websites) that is what’s required in the business field. With this in mind, I have chosen to study the way G.R. Cluskey, Jr. and Alan C. Vaux (1997) have formed their essay “Is Seasonal Stress a Career Choice of Professional Accountants?” as an example of business writing.
