About Study Guides
In most classes that I teach, I will post a study guide at this web site. The study guide will consist of a series of numbered thoughts which will include questions, clarifications, suggestions of particular exam questions, and sometimes a little additional material.
The study guide benefits you:
It provides questions to test your knowledge; it helps you to organize the
material in a different way that promotes understanding or gives you an insight
to possible exam questions; sometimes possible essay questions appear that you
could practice ahead of time.
The study guide benefits me:
I can look over all the material to review what we've covered and see how much
detail you were presented with; thinking about the material gives me ideas for
possible questions including essay questions; and it helps me focus on things
that I stressed in class so I know what to stress on an exam.
The study guide is NOT a substitute for your notes or the textbook. You should NEVER wait for the study guide to begin studying course material.
The study guide is presented to you as a courtesy from me, your instructor. I am under no obligation to do so, and it does not state in the syllabus that I will do so. However, I make every effort to prepare a study guide for the reasons stated above, and I make an effort to post it a sufficient number of days before the exam so that it will be useful. However, things happen. There are professional obligations and personal obligations that occasionally delay the posting of a study guide, and I have NO control over the web which could be inaccessible just as I'm ready to post something. Please consider your study guide only as something optional and additional as a courtesy to you.