The academic world prepares to tremble...

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Alison Damast at Business Week uncovers an alarming new MBA trend:

"Writing classes typically aren't on most business schools' list of core required courses, but business schools are starting to recognize that MBAs' rusty composition skills could benefit from a brush-up. In Minneapolis, the University of St. Thomas' Opus College of Business

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Well, they wouldn't want a tool in their toolbags they'd never USE, would they?

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Roseanne Bane's definitely grasped a core issue in her four years of teaching the Business Writing Communication Lab, though: "In business writing, conciseness is a prime virtue," Bane says. Students often lose sight of this in business school, and will sometimes "just add fluff" for the sake of getting to a required page count for a paper.

Just add fluff? In business school? Shocking...