Subject: HW #1
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@buffalo.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:47:53 -0400 (EDT)

A student writes:
"In class you said you would like us to write out both the questions
and the answers. I'm a bit confused as to what extent. Would you like
us to write out the entire text of the question and the sentences to be
rewritten - such as in p18: 18?

"I ask because I have been writing out the questions in their entirety,
and in some cases it seems superfluous and like would actually make the
homework messier and more difficult to grade."

I don't have the text in front of me, so I don't know about problem 18
in particular, but, in general, the rule of thumb you can use is this:
Someone reading your HW should be able to figure out what problem you
are answering, as well as what your answer is. If that means that you
can get away with copying less than the full problem, that's OK.