Law, Business and Society 11th Edition by Tony McAdams

Exercise 8

According to the 2011 National Survey of Student Engagement, business majors spend less time studying than students in any other broad field. Nearly half of senior business majors say they study fewer than 11 hours per week outside of class. According to the Collegiate Learning Assessment national essay test, business majors in their first two years of college improve their writing and reasoning skills less than any other major.
Can you explain why business students' writing and reasoning skills apparently in­crease less than those of any other major during the first two years of college
Source : David Glenn, "Business Educators Struggle to put Students to Work," The Chronicle of Higher Education , April 14, 2011 [http://chronicle.com/].