Contact

Reaching the editorial team behind Study Guide Authority is straightforward. This page explains how to send a message, what geographic scope the site covers, what details make an inquiry useful, and how long a response typically takes.

How to reach this office

The contact form on this site routes directly to the editorial desk — the same small team responsible for researching, writing, and maintaining every page in the reference library, from the Cornell Notes method to the bar exam prep overview.

For inquiries that don't fit neatly into a contact form, email is the cleaner option. Either channel reaches the same people. Phone contact is not offered; written messages create a record, allow for a more considered reply, and don't interrupt the research process mid-sentence.

A note on what this office handles: editorial questions, factual corrections, source disputes, and content suggestions. What it does not handle: tutoring requests, homework help, or academic advising. Those are genuinely different services — the how to get help page points toward resources better suited to individual academic support.

Service area covered

Study Guide Authority publishes national-scope reference content for the United States. The coverage model follows the framework used by major educational standards bodies — including the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and the Common Core State Standards Initiative — which are designed to apply across all 50 states rather than to a single district or region.

This means content covers study strategies, formats, and resources that are broadly applicable regardless of whether a student is working through an Advanced Placement course in Minnesota or a GED preparation program in Georgia. State-specific curriculum variations do exist — the College Board notes that AP course frameworks are updated on rolling cycles, and individual state departments of education maintain their own standards documents — but the site's reference framework treats those as contextual details rather than the primary organizing principle.

International students and learners outside the United States are welcome to use the resources. The research base draws on sources including the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the What Works Clearinghouse, and published cognitive science literature, none of which is geographically restricted.

What to include in your message

A useful message takes about 3 minutes to write and saves considerably more time in back-and-forth clarification. The following breakdown covers what actually helps:

1. The specific page in question. If the message concerns a factual error or source dispute, include the page title or URL. "The article about spaced repetition" is harder to locate than "the spaced repetition strategy page."
2. The specific claim being questioned. Quote the sentence or paragraph directly. Paraphrasing introduces ambiguity.
3. The source that contradicts or supports the claim. Named public sources — a published study, a government agency document, a standards body publication — are far more actionable than general disagreement.
4. The nature of the request. A factual correction, a content suggestion, a licensing question, and a media inquiry each route differently. Naming the category upfront cuts response time.
5. Contact information. An email address for a reply is necessary. A name is optional but appreciated — it makes the exchange feel like a conversation rather than a ticket queue.

Messages that arrive as a single paragraph of context-free feedback — "this is wrong" being the structural archetype of that genre — are genuinely difficult to act on, even with goodwill on both sides.

Response expectations

The editorial team reviews incoming messages during normal weekday hours. Most substantive inquiries receive a reply within 3 to 5 business days. Factual corrections that involve re-verification against primary sources — checking a statute, re-reading an IES report, confirming a College Board policy — may take closer to 7 business days, because the standard for publishing a correction is the same as the standard for the original claim: it needs to be right.

Automated acknowledgment is not currently set up, which means silence for the first 24 hours is not an indication that a message was lost. If no response arrives within 10 business days, a follow-up message is reasonable.

Two types of messages reliably do not receive replies: solicitations for link exchanges or sponsored content placements, and requests to remove accurate, properly sourced information from the reference library. The former is a content integrity question; the latter is an editorial one. Neither has a productive resolution through back-channel correspondence.

Content suggestions — topics not yet covered, formats underrepresented in the library, populations whose needs aren't addressed — are genuinely useful and do influence the editorial calendar. The study guide formats overview and the adult learners page, for example, exist in part because gaps in the original site structure were visible. Pointing out another gap is a contribution, not an imposition.