Many, if not all, of the questions I see asked here are easily answerable BY the quaestor (That's question-asker for you with a grade-school vocabulary) if they had used their search engine and a few keywords. Are people lazy, incapable, or illiterate?
2007-09-14 11:23:33 · 2 answers · asked by Stephen H 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
All of the above. Some are lazy and want us to do their work for them. Some are incapable because they don't know how to use the search engine. Some are illiterate because they don't know how to interpret what they find and they feel overwhelmed.
Some are deserving of an answer and I try to give my answers to them. If they want me to do it all I just give them the site to go to to do it themselves. I have an inate ability to know the difference most of the time. Plus I work as a Teacher's Aide at a school and I know the type of questions that are really looking for the answers and the questions are asking for us to do it for them. Aren't you glad you asked? :-)
2007-09-14 12:23:24 · answer #1 · answered by Frosty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you need the source for your school paper? If a person does not use the search engine for their answer, but instead use personal knowledge, there is no reason to cite a source. I know this bites if you are attempting to use the information for a paper. You might just have to do your own search to find the information.
2007-09-14 11:40:28 · answer #2 · answered by julvrug 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋