Essay writing in Commerce

[tcg93]

How much essay writing / timed writing skills are required for studying Commerce? (monash or UoM)

[TrueTears]

Depends what course, eg, finance, economics, actuarial studies - almost no need for essay writing, as long as you can read and interpret english your maths skills are WAY more important than english skills. They are heavily maths based (in latter years) and if you are good at maths then you will do really well.

[IntoTheNewWorld]

Depends entirely on your major I believe

[Gloamglozer]

Depends what course, eg, finance, economics, actuarial studies - almost no need for essay writing, as long as you can read and interpret english your maths skills are WAY more important than english skills. They are heavily maths based (in latter years) and if you are good at maths then you will do really well.

I don't know about economics.  I think there's still reasonably a bit of writing in economics.

[tcg93]

Depends what course, eg, finance, economics, actuarial studies - almost no need for essay writing, as long as you can read and interpret english your maths skills are WAY more important than english skills. They are heavily maths based (in latter years) and if you are good at maths then you will do really well.

cool, thanks.

[TrueTears]

Depends what course, eg, finance, economics, actuarial studies - almost no need for essay writing, as long as you can read and interpret english your maths skills are WAY more important than english skills. They are heavily maths based (in latter years) and if you are good at maths then you will do really well.

I don't know about economics.  I think there's still reasonably a bit of writing in economics.

Well to be more precise, I was talking more about mathematical economics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_economics#Econometrics) in fact almost all of mathematical economics is based on statistics which is the econometrics branch of study - Heavily mathematics intensive. You will be surprised at some of the mathematical tools used in economics, even topics such as graph theory in pure mathematics are utilised to a far extent. Although ofcourse there are writing in economics, afterall it is a social science and not a pure one, but the mathematical aspects of it are far more important in order to understand the concepts.

[Kopite]

How much essay writing / timed writing skills are required for studying Commerce? (monash or UoM)

you'll need it for management!!

[laynie]

marketing and management you will need it.

[schmalex]

In economics you have to write quite a bit but your not judged on how WELL you write at all, you can get full marks and have a pretty poor grasp of English. Also, it isn't essay style at all, so I wouldn't worry about economics.

[methodsman]

Regardless of the major, the two killer essay subjects are Management (~1000 words) and Business Law (3000 word assignment), get them out of the way in first year and life should be great! (unless you choose to major in these)

[pooshwaltzer]

Is Michael Lambris still the lecturer for Biz Law Principles? He and Pamela Hanrahan were my favourite orators. legal essays were always a struggle between case law interpretation and statutory precedence. Many accounting students struggle with this component of their core subject selections. Actuarial science and finance (almost) the exceptions.

[tcg93]

Regardless of the major, the two killer essay subjects are Management (~1000 words) and Business Law (3000 word assignment), get them out of the way in first year and life should be great! (unless you choose to major in these)

so these are both assignments and not essays done in exam conditions?

[methodsman]

Regardless of the major, the two killer essay subjects are Management (~1000 words) and Business Law (3000 word assignment), get them out of the way in first year and life should be great! (unless you choose to major in these)

so these are both assignments and not essays done in exam conditions?

Yes. Both assignments. The exams are essays too but only short ones (for MGC1010). With bus law, there's different cases you have to analyse.

[tcg93]

Regardless of the major, the two killer essay subjects are Management (~1000 words) and Business Law (3000 word assignment), get them out of the way in first year and life should be great! (unless you choose to major in these)

so these are both assignments and not essays done in exam conditions?

Yes. Both assignments. The exams are essays too but only short ones (for MGC1010). With bus law, there's different cases you have to analyse.

But the time you get to write these, are they as crazy short as VCE English?