Below are email templates, learning tools, study strategies and informational guides for you to reference. These include materials generated by the Academic Guides and Learning Consultants at the Academic Resource Center (ARC) as well as non-Duke experts.
Email Templates
This email template offers a structure for asking professors about potential research opportunities. View Template
This email template provides a structure for students to use to reach out to faculty who have been their instructor or faculty found in the VLearn directory. View Template
This email template provides a structure to approach a professor about a concern in a class. View Template
This email templates provides a structure for sending a follow-up or reminder email to faculty when you are waiting on their response. View Template
This email template provides a structure for asking your professor to meet at a time outside his/her listed office hours. View Template
This email templates provides a structure for asking for letters of recommendation for graduate schools, research opportunities, grants/fellowships, and jobs. View Template
How To...
Here are some tips for how to better develop relationships with faculty. View Tips
Personal issues can be hard to talk about in general, let alone your your professor. Here are some tips to help with these conversations. View Tips
Whether it is for grad school, a grant, a fellowship, or a job, letters of recommendations are important items needed. Here are some tips for requesting them. View Tips
The Academic Guides Program gives a special thanks to the Academic Resource Center (ARC), Duke LIFE, Athletics Advising and others for their contributions to the creation of these resources.
