Cliffs Notes/Spark Notes

[deleted244469]

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Is using these unethical if you have not read the book? I have a quiz this week on a very long book (about 60% through). Would reading these for the rest of the book be cheating? It just bugs me and I don't know weather I can do it or not.

 

[anonymousername]

no

 

[Shinobiz11]

Nothing wrong with it at all, be resourceful!!!

 

[deleted244469]

anyone else?

 

[red10]

I wouldn't call it cheating. But your prof probably knows people use them and will potentially quiz on things not covered in/more specific than sparknotes/clifnotes summaries.

 

[Thomas Hearns]

I wouldn't call it cheating. But your prof probably knows people use them and will potentially quiz on things not covered in/more specific than sparknotes/clifnotes summaries.

This is true

 

[orthomyxo]

Personally, I could never use sparknotes in place of the actual book. Their summaries are pretty horrible. The only thing I use them for is refreshing my memory about a certain chapter or something.

 

[lstone13]

I wouldn't call it cheating. But your prof probably knows people use them and will potentially quiz on things not covered in/more specific than sparknotes/clifnotes summaries.

Personally, I could never use sparknotes in place of the actual book. Their summaries are pretty horrible. The only thing I use them for is refreshing my memory about a certain chapter or something.

Both of these are valid points. Usually, Cliff Notes/Spark Notes covers the general themes and basic plot of the book, so while I don't believe it would be cheating to use these resources to help you study, it may not be beneficial to you to use them as your only source of information.

 

[Zona Pellucida]

 

[c5212]

I wouldn't call it cheating. But your prof probably knows people use them and will potentially quiz on things not covered in/more specific than sparknotes/clifnotes summaries.

Truth.

Don't forget that most of these people have things called PhD's 😉