The Study Guide portion, written by Martha Goshaw, gives students tips on how to effectively use this text to study and provides worked out annotated solutions to the Warm-Up Exercises and Check Your Understanding Exercises. The remainder of the manual contains completely worked-out solutions with Step-by-Step annotations for all the odd-numbered exercises in the text, with the exception of the discussion and writing exercises, as well as completely worked-out solutions to all the exercises in the Chapter Reviews, Chapter Tests, and Cumulative Reviews.