The length of the paper is three double spaced pages, not including any sources cited. There will be a two percentage point deduction for each page in excess of three. You should use 1" margins and 12 point font.

The paper should be free from typographical and grammatical errors and be well written. This means it follows APA guidelines covered in class except that you do not need a cover page and only need to include the sections described below. In addition, the paper should use professional business terms and not colloquialism. It also should employ simple, direct phrasing and avoid run-on sentences and paragraphs. Finally, this is not a research project and you do not need to use outside sources. However, if you do, your bibliography or works cited page will not count toward the three page limit.

The review should clearly summarize the main points of the article and analyze its contents and contribution to auditing. Students also should demonstrate analytical thinking by stating how the content of the article supports the material from the class and analyzing the content of the article. I appreciate that this is pretty vague, but the nature of your opinion will vary depending on the nature of the article. Your review should contain an Article Review section that summarizes the main points of the article. It also should have an Importance to Auditing section and an Evaluation and Conclusions section where you should demonstrate your analytical thinking skills. These last two sections should make up around half of your paper. By evaluation, I do not mean evaluating how the article was written. I mean evaluating the content and conclusions of the article and providing your opinion on them.