Welcome to the Academic Resource Center (ARC)!
Our mission at the Academic Resource Center (ARC) is to assist students in developing the knowledge base, skills, and strategies that will help them to become confident, independent, and active learners. The ARC offers both one-on-one tutoring and group sessions, as well as a wide range of academic support services aimed at helping students meet the challenge of NYU's rigorous academic standards.
To learn more about our services, please visit our website. If you have more questions, please email us at shanghai.arc@nyu.edu for assistance.
STEM, ECONOMICS, BUSINESS, CHINESE APPOINTMENT POLICIES:
Course-specific Learning Assistants (LAs) provide 1-on-1 and small group tutoring to deepen your understanding of difficult materials, help you review the important concepts and practice problem-solving. The STEM, Business, Economics LAs hold office hours and review sessions in the ARC (W523), New Bund Campus, and allow a maximum of 30 appointments for each time slot. The IMA LAs hold office hours in the IMA Lab (826), and allow 3 appointments for each time slot. The Chinese LAs offer 1:1 tutoring only in the Chinese Clinic (965). We encourage you to make an appointment with LAs in advance and check in/out when you start/end the session. You can cancel your appointment anytime on WCOnline. If you choose to drop in the session, the LAs will also ask you to enter your information on WCOnline and clock in/out for ARC record-keeping purposes. Please refer to our Guide for more details.
WRITING & SPEAKING APPOINTMENT POLICIES:
Writing & Speaking Fellows can work with you at any point in the process of writing, speaking, reading, and listening. Appointments are booked for 1 hour, but typically last around 45 minutes so that there is time to complete a client report that summarizes your progress and is shared with relevant faculty unless you request otherwise.
If you need to cancel your appointment, please do so in WCOnline as soon as possible so that the time can be available for another student. If WCOnline will not allow you to cancel the appointment, please email the tutor directly. Tutors' email addresses can be found on their appointment booking page.
If you are more than 10 minutes late for your appointment, it will be marked as a "No Show". If you miss two appointments, your WCOnline account will be disabled and you will not be able to make additional appointments for the semester. In that scenario, you must email shanghai.arc@nyu.edu for assistance.
For full policy, please refer to this page.
WHAT TO EXPECT IN A WRITING & SPEAKING APPOINTMENT:
Please remember that Writing & Speaking fellows can work with you at any point in the writing, speaking, listening, studying, and reading process, including brainstorming and academic skills. If you have any questions about your appointment, please email shanghai.arc@nyu.edu.
Our principles and practices are aligned with those of the Writing Center at NYU New York, as described below.
"During your session, you will think, write, and talk about the writing that is on the page and the writing that isn't yet there. We will prompt you to think actively, to compose new writing, and to discuss your thoughts about your paper and your writing process.
We will treat you with respect and respond to your concerns. At the same time, because we are just as interested in your long-term development as we are in your paper, we may ask you to try out a new strategy. Our aim is two-fold: to help you with your concerns about the paper at hand and to suggest to you something new about the craft of writing, both of which you can take with you.
We are writing consultants, not proofreaders, editors, ghostwriters, or graders of your paper. You should not expect us to read through your paper and fix it. We will not correct your paper for you. We will make suggestions about style as we come to understand your meaning. In cases where we think sentence structure needs review, we will address specific rules with you.
We will not tell you what your idea is or how to read a particular piece of evidence. We will prompt you to rethink and complicate your idea, and we will help you to develop ways to clarify, deepen, and refine your readings of evidence.
We will not assess the validity of a grade you have received."
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