The importance of READING AND FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS in this course.
In terms of your future success even more important than reading literature with care is the ability to read directions carefully and follow them fully and faithfully. Employers regard that as a key asset, and of course see weakness in this area as a serious liability. You can not expect an employer to hold your hand throughout an assignment the way you may have expected your parents or previous school teachers to do so. Most of the time, if you have to come to the employers to have the directions explained, you will be out of a job, no matter how bad the directions in fact are.
Now that you are in college you must make the transition clearly stated in the traditional address to Freshmen at Amherst College, words that your instructor heard on his first day of college.
On the other hand, instructions and schedules often have ambiguities and sometimes even obvious errors. So, if after reading the directions carefully, you still have questions, you are strongly encouraged to ask questions in class, email the instructor, and/or come to see him in his office hours. I look forward to getting to know you and helping you in any way that I can. I want you to succeed here!
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