Sean,
As a teacher of electronics, I can assure you that the
type of questions you have asked on the PIC list are
EXACTLY the kind of questions we WANT our students to
be asking!!

What we DON'T want is for our students to be asking
someone to DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM. There is absolutely
no education going on when that is done.

Secondly, it is a form of plagiarism to hand in a
project and pretend it is your own work when in fact
it is not. Even if you did "pay" for it.

There is a BIG difference between getting help and
having someone else do it all for you. All of us need
help from time to time. It is a sign of intelligence
to know when you need help. It is a sign of intelligence
to be able to ask a question clearly. It is a sign of
intelligence to be able to understand which "answers" we
get are good answers, and which are not. It is a sign
of intelligence to know WHO to ask, and who NOT to ask
for help on a specific topic. It is a sign of intelligence
to be able to apply the knowledge gained from asking
questions to the problem at hand, and to also see how
it applies to OTHER problems, too. And it is just a
sign of good manners and basic courtesy to say "thank-you"
to those who have helped us, and to acknowledge their
contributions to our own efforts.

Fr. Thomas McGahee


----- Original Message -----
From: Sean H. Breheny <shb7@CORNELL.EDU>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [OT]:Helping Profs. help students


> James,
>
> I haven't been following this thread very closely, what constitutes
> "homework" posts? For example, I sometimes ask a question which is related
> to a class assignment, but I never ask anyone to do a part of the
> assignment for me. In addition, I feel that these questions are often the
> kind of things that are fairly relevant for everyone (for example, my
> recent vehicle speed determination thread).
>
> Sean
>
> At 09:16 PM 2/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >source= http://www.piclist.com/postbot.asp?id=piclist\2001\02\27\173653a
> >
> >How about if we ammend the PICList FAQ to add a section for professors...
> >We could ask them to post using one of the existig topic tags but with a
> >specific, additional bit of text in the subject line that consultants who
> >want to avoid student "clients" could setup thier email clients to filter
for.
> >
> >Perhaps "[OT]: [HOMEWORK]". We could add a mailto link like
> >mailto:piclist@mitvma.mit.edu?subject=%5BOT%5D%3A%20%5BHOMEWORK%5D
> >to make it easy.
> >
> >Does it seem like that would help?
> >
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