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.