Chris,
Having taught in the university setting, I submit that the solution to the
problem of plagiarism, or of the inappropriate, uncredited use of
extra-curricular materials in general, is not to throttle the public
sharing of information where it occurs.
I'm afraid students (and their professors) do have to take some
responsibility. If this list were explicitly directed and managed in
support of someone's formal curriculum, I could see the reasonableness of
our agreeing to observe such restrictions. As it is, I think the benefits
of Lars' and Jeni's efforts in public outweigh the costs. (Especially since
the cost cited is merely hypothetical and based on the idea that members of
this list should be responsible for "too large a temptation for some less
scrupulous student". Poor thing, unable to resist!)
Another $0.02 worth. (In place of the nickel's worth of lecture on how the
plagiarist is really robbing himself. :-)
Cheers,
Wendell
At 04:54 PM 3/18/2003, Chris wrote:
At 03:38 PM 3/18/03, you wrote:
Hi all,
Here are my answers to the review questions in Ch. 8 of "Beginning XSLT"
by Jeni Tennison. Comments, corrections or clarifications are appreciated.
My hope is that these postings and responses will be of value in the future
to anyone working through Beginning XSLT and wanting to check their answers.
Regards,
Lars
Is anyone else bothered by this? I'm sure that Mr. Huttar's intentions are
entirely noble, and he's clearly doing the work entailed in studying the
questions in Ms. Tennison's book and formulating his answers.
However, having these answers posted and archived seems to me too
large a temptation for some less scrupulous student who may be assigned
these questions when using Ms. Tennison's book in a class. I know in
some other email lists I've been on, care was taken not to circumvent the
learning process for such students by doing their homework for them.
Wouldn't that same care be appropriate here?
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