Xref: utzoo comp.theory:473 sci.math:10290 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!mintaka!think!yale!cmcl2!lanl!opus!niall From: niall@nmsu.edu (Niall Graham) Newsgroups: comp.theory,sci.math Subject: Re: Homework problems? Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 90 18:47:36 GMT References: <88200005@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> <1413@oravax.UUCP> Sender: news@nmsu.edu Followup-To: comp.theory Organization: NMSU Computer Science Lines: 19 In-reply-to: moss@ibis.cs.umass.edu's message of 12 Mar 90 14:38:04 GMT Eliot Moss (Moss@cs.umass.edu) writes: >Should we establish any principle of use of this news group concerning >requests for help to answer course homework problems? Some of the questions >posted here occasionally have the feel that they may have been assigned in a >class. In my opinion, I would want a student to claim that questions posted >here relate to research, not homework. This could get messy, but there is an >important ethical and fairness issue at stake ... Eliot Moss Frequently, a posting would benefit from the inclusion of a sentence or two on the motivation/origin of the problem. Such postings would have several desirable properties: They would be more interesting to read. They would allow the reader to reformulate the problem to his/her taste. And relevant to the issue at hand: it would be more difficult for doers-of-homework to disguise their problems as original research. Any comments? Niall Graham niall@c3.lanl.gov (despite source of posting)