Tutoring and Where to Get Academic Help

• The first thing you should do is speak to your professor. This is the most important step. He/she keeps weekly Office Hours when you can visit and ask questions about class. Also, he/she can tell you about specific tutoring services or study groups that are available to this department or class.



• Many academic departments have Tutoring Labs where you can receive one-on-one or small group help. Here's a partial list of tutoring labs and resource centers:
  

  Accounting Resource Lab	E 273
  Computer Information Systems Lab	L 210
  ESL Lab	E 201
  Math Tutoring Lab	E 215
  Reading/Communication Skills Lab	E 114
  Speech Center	C 249, C220, C 222
  Writing Center	E 111

  
  
• The Writing Center helps students improve their writing in any class, except ESL and Reading department courses, which have their own tutoring labs.
  
  Each Writing Center tutor works with a small group of students and can read through one of your papers in its entirety, time permitting, to give you a specific evaluation of its strengths and weaknesses, with an emphasis on recurring error patterns.
   
  Your tutor can also help you learn how to get started on a research paper, teach you how to proofread, or help you correct an already-graded essay (so you can learn from your mistakes and not repeat them). If you have an essay that's ready, or almost ready, to be handed in, your tutor can look it over, give you an overall evaluation of the grammar, thesis, organization, development and citation, and correct the first five sentences as specific examples of the grammar. Tutors do not correct ungraded papers - but they do offer an evaluation of any problems and offer suggestions for improvement.
  
  Getting a tutor at the Writing Center is simple and easy. You just come in promptly at the very beginning of any class period that you're free. No advance appointments are necessary.
  
  
• The Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program operates a Science Study Center that provides free tutoring in Biological Chemistry and Chemistry.
  
  
• The Academic Peer Instruction Program provides students with peer tutors. The tutor is a student who has already successfully completed the course, and then re-attends the same course with the same professor, taking notes and organizing a minimum of three weekly out-of-class group study sessions. Tutors receive extensive training before they work with students. The goal of this program is to encourage you to become an independent learner.
  
  
• The Mentor Program matches new students with academically successful students, who have been trained to be mentors. A mentor provides additional personal support and guidance and can help you identify and locate the best LaGuardia services to help you make the most of your college experience.
  
  
• Talk to your classmates and form a study group. You'll make new friends and help each other learn the course material

Related Topics:

• Academic Advisement and Educational Planning help students connect their education and career goals.
  
• Located in C322, the Ombuds Officer helps students with problems that seemingly cant be handled by the usual processes and procedures. Depending on the nature of the problem, she offers advice, guidance, interpretation and investigation to students who come for help.
  
  

For more information about these programs, please click on a specific program on the left.