Why do people in the book and author section feel the need to try to get other people to do their homework?

Question

Truthfully, all the questions in this section, or most of them have to do with homework. Doesn't any care about books?
Doesn't anyone want to talk about them other than for homework?

It makes me slightly angry, I suppose...

Answer 1

I share your frustration. It would be nice to have literary conversation--without feeling as though the questions were contrived...
...oi!

Answer 2

Isn't this true in other areas as well? Most people don't want to RTM (read the manual) on anything, they just want someone else to do so and then tell them how. There is a fine line between teaching and telling...

I also think it's because no one really thinks or imagines anymore - it's a result of the microwave/google generation. People now think you can get an answer to anything in 40 seconds or less, and all the imagining is done for you in videos and games, so why spend all that time reading a book? How sad.

Answer 3

I agree. I don't think that ALL the questions are about homework, but a lot of them are. I try not to tell most of the answers outright but some of these are just pa-thet-ick. I mean, some of the questions could be answered on the back of the book! But the only one they're hurting is themselves, as every teacher has ever told me.

I would be drawn and quartered if I ever cheated on anything. Wow.

Yeah, it makes me a little upset too X )

Answer 4

As an English teacher, it makes me angry, and a bit sick, too. It is interesting to look at the questions and see all of the amazing literature that these lazy students desperately need and are losing out on. I know that I have students that have "faked" their way through books, and they are the same students that can't think for themselves.

It makes me angry when some answerers willingly oblige these people and simply feed them the information they are asking for, instead of giving them just enough info to set them on their way (on their own).

I worry for the future, but maybe that's simply because I just finished re-reading Fahrenheit 451 yesterday...

Answer 5

If people would stop giving them answers, they would probably stop. Sometimes it's hard to tell. I give definitions, clues, hints, questions to lead them to the answer, and sometimes a website link. And no doubt I've misjudged.

What really gets me is when they get mad if you don't give them exactly what they want. That mentality is frightening.

Answer 6

it seems like a lot of lazy high school kids who are online playing games and checking myspace and just hoping that someone else will answer their questions and write their reports for them. i spent nights and weeks doing research in high school to write my papers. kids should have to cite sources or bring them in with the paper, for proof!!

Answer 7

no