Thanks for the very useful information.  I have shared it with my four
children who are still in high school and college, and passed it along
to some academic friends.
Bill Wagner
 
Jonathan Morse wrote:
>
> 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