Harvey:

I agree with you 100%, which probably wouldn't make many of my colleagues 
happy.  My paper assignments are more like thought and reflective 
assignments that are structured in such a way that the students have to come 
up with their own ideas, and do their own work.

I don't accept a paper that is any more than 5 pages long, since the number 
of students I have to teach each semester makes grading larger papers 
totally unmanageable.

73 de KB8TYJ

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From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:00 PM
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> Tom, here's another solution.  Don't assign long research papers.  I've
> never had much faith in them anyway, and I always thought the primary
> motivation behind them was for the students to do the professor's research
> for him without knowing it.  I think they are a royal pain in the butt. 
> <G>
> Harvey
>