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Important Note to Students Regarding Email Communications to Lecturers
Monash University
Last checked: 25 Oct 2026 UTCPage text
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Law faculty staff receive many emails from students requesting assistance in the lead-up to end-of-year exams. This message offers some advice about how best to help your lecturers assist with requests for help.
1. Academic staff have a discretion to determine how to respond to requests for assistance from students, including whether to respond by email. 2. Because of the number of requests and other work pressures, your lecturers may not be able to respond immediately to all requests or to give long, detailed responses. Please be patient and polite. 3. Please make sure that any requests are clear, polite and succinct. 4. Your emails SHOULD ask specific questions. They should NOT include long lists of questions. 5. Before asking for help, please try to find the answer yourself. Your emails SHOULD show evidence of your own efforts to answer the question (by reading cases, texts or other materials). If there is no evidence of this, please understand that your email may not be answered. 6. Appropriate answers to requests for help may be a short clarification of a point or advice about further research that you must undertake yourself.