... receive my input and assistance, Professor Coughlin involved me in the preparation of the course syllabus. We sat down one-on-one and looked over the syllabus line by line over the winter break, before Professor Coughlin had been able to contact any of the graduate teaching assistants. In doing this, we discussed many aspects of the class, including exam schedule and content. I developed my listening skills-listening to what the Professor wanted and what his thinking patterns were like, and also my own communications skills-to express what something might be like for an undergraduate. For example, I suggested that exams reflect the assigned homework as well as material in the textbook and lecture, because it would provide more incentive to do the homework, and the professor agreed to incorporate this into the syllabus. I then set up the website with links to the syllabus, the exam schedule, exam information for each ...

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