Pound isn't read much in high schools, of course, so this list doesn't
receive many elementary requests for help with homework. They come flooding
into other lists, though -- sometimes so thick and fast that they slow the
list down. But abundant or not, the requests are worth thinking about in
pedagogical terms. You want to help, of course, but on the other hand you
really aren't helping if you just write the paper (or the bibliography) for
the inquirer.
 
So what do you do? For a start, you read Phil Agre's excellent essay "The
Art of Getting Help." This can be found at
 
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/getting-help.html
 
Jonathan Morse