Re: NANFA-- "Hot" Topic - requests for information

Stan Perkins (stanperkins_at_academicplanet.com)
Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:09:29 -0600

Chris,
Good job! As a teacher who assigns such projects, I would eagerly accept
such a posting as a source for a student project. The student would submit a
copy of the email and include it in the bibliography under personal
communication. This is a commonly used practice in most scientific and
hobbist literature. If I do this I will often refer the student to journals
or publications that they can research. Most teachers would insist on
several sources for any kind of research project anyway.

Kudos for your help! If more people incouraged young people to participate
in activities like these our society might just make it after all.

Stan Perkins
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Scharpf" <ichthos_at_comcast.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- "Hot" Topic - requests for information

> > Chris,
> >
> > No slam was intended...
>
> I didn't think I was getting slammed. Slammed was Dave Neely's word
choice,
> and I think he overreacted on this point. I had simply pointed out the
> humorous irony of a post that was actually *about* fish being criticized
for
> containing too much information while posts containing no "fishy"
> information whatsoever were concurrently being derided/defended. Believe
me,
> I was amused, not offended!
>
> I will leave it up to Nick Z. whether to forward my post to the student. I
> trust his judgment on this. At worst, some people on this list learned a
> little about Macrhybopsis.
>
> As far as how to convey the appropriate amount of information to students
> doing homework and research assignments, I think that's a discussion best
> had off list.
>
> But, let's give the student *some* credit. She (he?) obviously did enough
> research to find out about NANFA and at least ask the right people her
> questions!
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Bemused in Baltimore

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