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The ability to communicate effectively is critical in the accounting profession, yet research shows there is a gap between employer expectations and student abilities to adapt communication to various contexts. In this paper we introduce "Communication Roulette", a novel learning intervention that encourages students to practice their written communication skills by sensitizing them to the need to tailor their message to different audiences (i.e. shareholders, management, clients, etc.) using various communication formats (i.e. letter, email, presentation etc.) while simultaneously reinforcing their knowledge in important content areas. We provide implementation instructions and sample prompts, along with ideas to modify the intervention for a variety of classroom settings. Survey results indicate students find Communication Roulette increases both their confidence and ability to communicate effectively with different audiences and formats. We find these improvements in learning outcomes can largely be achieved through peer feedback alone, although we document incremental improvements in self-reported confidence with supplemental instructor feedback. Finally, pre- and post-assessments indicate an increase in student content knowledge following implementation of Communication Roulette.

He specializes in the history of Japanese thought and the history of Sino-Japanese intellectual and cultural interaction. 1 Yan Shaodang, in the Forward to Qian 2004. 2 In the Forward to Qian 2004, Yan Shaodang gives the following positive assessment of the significance of this work: "This book is the first work by a Chinese scholar to thoroughly examine the scholarship of a Japanese scholar having considerable authority in the Japanese field of China studies and, at nearly the same level of scholarship, to state his judgment of the cultural legacy of Naitō's substantive and fair-minded scholarship. 3 These translations include Naitō 2005 (his history of Chinese painting), Naitō 2007 (his travel description of China), Naitō 2008 (his history of Chinese historiography), Naitō 2012 (his studies in the history of Japanese culture), and Naitō 2009 (a collection of his Chinese poetry and essays). 4 For example, in 2005 Sanqin Chubanshe published Naitō 2005.