Written And Computer-Mediated Communication Skills: An Employer Perspective

In Christopher G. Jones’s article “Written and Computer-Mediated Accounting Communication Skills: an Employer Perspective.” The writer portrayed the importance of communication of accounting majors entering the work field. The article focuses on three key communication skills that are important to the author.

The article is broken into three different sections in which the author explains the importance of communication. The first is what skills do employers find most important for an accountant to know (Jones 248). Then followed by the second section “Do employers place the same importance on communication skills that are computer mediated as they do on basic writing mechanics or effective business writing?”(Jones 248). The third section answers “Are

The author then list the top eight most important written communication skills need in the modern work place. One of the eight were composing accurate and precise documents. The only computer mandated communication skill referred to in this section is the ability to compose effective emails (Jones 264). The article then stats that the daily workflow of emails and modern advances in technology have made this the most important followed by the ability of a professional manner on social media. The author revels his opinions by being shocked at the unimportance of proper social network etiquette.

With the second section, the author stresses the importance of entry level communication skills. Out of the four major skills categories, Employers chose the writing mechanics of sentences as the most important. “Employers rated correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage somewhere between very important and extremely important.”(Jones 264). Computer-mediated Communication skills aren’t as important or necessary when compared to Basic writing mechanics, Documentation, effective writing (Jones