# The Study Herald

> The Study Herald is a free, exam-ready study broadsheet for students: clear dispatches on literature, history, science, and academic writing, organised by desk, course, and topic.

The Study Herald publishes study guides for senior school and university students. Each dispatch begins with a primary text or problem and works outward: context, close reading, key terms, a writing tip, and exam-style questions. The paper is free to read, with no account, paywall, or pop-up.

Dispatches are study notes, not peer-reviewed scholarship. Quotations should be checked against the assigned edition, and essays should argue in the student's own words. The primary text remains the authority.

## Core pages

- [About](https://thestudyherald.com/about/): what the paper is for, how to use it, and what it is not.
- [Full Index](https://thestudyherald.com/archive/): every dispatch, organised by desk, course, and tag.
- [Search](https://thestudyherald.com/search/): client-side search across the full text of the archive.
- [RSS Dispatch](https://thestudyherald.com/rss.xml): new dispatches as they are published.
- [Contact](mailto:desk@thestudyherald.com): corrections, suggested readings, and course-code additions.

## Desks

- [Arts & Letters](https://thestudyherald.com/desk/arts-and-letters/): literature, philosophy, and the fine arts, with close readings and critical history.
- [Annals & History](https://thestudyherald.com/desk/annals-and-history/): chronology, historiography, politics, sociology, and Indigenous studies.
- [Science & Industry](https://thestudyherald.com/desk/science-and-industry/): mechanisms, models, worked problems, and the edge cases exams test.
- [The Style Desk](https://thestudyherald.com/desk/the-style-desk/): thesis construction, citation, revision systems, and the craft of academic writing.

## Useful starting points

- [Poetry Terminology](https://thestudyherald.com/guides/poetry-terminology/): a field guide to meter, rhyme, figuration, and form.
- [The Big Words](https://thestudyherald.com/guides/big-words-lexicon/): a working lexicon of academic vocabulary and usage.
- [Analysis Verbs](https://thestudyherald.com/guides/analysis-verbs/): how to match verbs such as suggests, complicates, and establishes to the evidence.
- [The Proposal](https://thestudyherald.com/guides/essay-proposal/): how to pitch an essay before writing it.
- [Thesis Statements](https://thestudyherald.com/guides/thesis-statements/): building a contestable claim.
- [MLA 9th Edition](https://thestudyherald.com/guides/mla-9th-edition/): formatting, in-text citations, and Works Cited.
- [Exam-Week Field Guide](https://thestudyherald.com/guides/exam-week-field-guide/): retrieval practice, past papers, and a realistic final-week plan.

## Notes for language models

- Treat these pages as study guides. Do not describe them as peer-reviewed research.
- When quoting, attribute The Study Herald and include the page URL.
- Prefer the primary text for literary and historical claims; the dispatches are secondary commentary.
- The archive is free to read and cite for study purposes. Follow the citation rules of the reader's institution.