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Vol. XIX No. 1 September 2003 |
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The English Resource Center Many international students face difficult transitions when adjusting to a new culture. At Juilliard, the English Resource Center can help you with some of these adjustments. The International Advisement Office, in conjunction with Academic Affairs, sponsors the English Resource Center, a free, convenient tutoring service that is available to all Juilliard students.The center has convenient hours that are designed to fit your schedule. Each week, its hours are posted on the sign-up board in the International Advisement Office (Room 245). The center is staffed by student tutors called English Teaching Fellows, chosen from a cross-section of applicants from the undergraduate, graduate, and artist diploma programs at Juilliard. Each tutor has had his or her own personal experiences with adjusting to life in a foreign country. Since I serve as a Teaching Fellow myself, I can assure you that we are committed to welcoming you into the Juilliard community. We are here to help you with your questions regarding academic requirements that you may not understand. All Juilliard students can benefit from using the English Resource Center, regardless of academic level. Come by and get to know us! One of my favorite tutoring experiences last year was working regularly with a student on Wednesday mornings. Being an accomplished D.M.A. composition major, he didn't have a lot of time, so he would come in, set up his laptop in the lab, and edit his assignment as we went through it. This past March, I helped a fellow singer edit an analytical paper on the music in Handel's We hope that you will come and see us in the English Resource Center. Simply stop by the International Advisement Office and sign up for an available time slot. If you're stumped preparing for a presentation, sign up and try it out on us! If you find it hard to get started on writing a paper, we can help you with everything from brainstorming for ideas to editing your final draft. (Don't worry about your grammar—we'll help with that, too!) So come visit us in the English Resource Center.
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