The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The schools teach a (1)__________ many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician. Do they also teach anything of value to the future employee? Yes, they teach the one thing that it is perhaps most valuable for the future employee to know. But very few students bother to learn it. This basic is the skill ability to organize and express ideas in writing and in speaking. ...

The first question we might ask is: What can you learn in college that will help you in being an employee? The schools teach a (1)__________ many things of value to the future accountant, doctor or electrician. Do they also teach anything of value to the future employee? Yes, they teach the one thing that it is perhaps most valuable for the future employee to know. But very few students bother to learn it. This basic is the skill ability to organize and express ideas in writing and in speaking. This means that your success as an employee will depend on your ability to communicate with people and to (2)__________ your own thoughts and ideas to them so they will both understand what you are driving at and be persuaded.

Of course, skill in expression is not enough by itself. You must have something to say in the first place. The effectiveness of your job depends (3)__________ your ability to make other people understand your work as they do on the quality of the work itself.

Expressing one’s thoughts is one skill that the school can really teach. The foundations for (4)__________ in expression have to be laid early: an interest in and an ear for language; experience in organizing ideas and data, in brushing aside the irrelevant, and above all the (5)__________ of verbal expression. If you do not lay these foundations during your school years, you may never have an opportunity again.