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[QUOTE="Mushrooom_Man"] I'm wondering the same . . .Mushrooom_Man
this might explain a little bit.
Ahhhhhh, that's kinda cool.But I take it it's not allowed or something?
It's allowed. I mean, it's not like they're going to know if you read a summary instead of the entire book/reading. The reason why it's not a great thing to do is because you only come away with a superficial understanding of the text, so if your teacher asks in-depth questions you're going to be screwed.
Anyway, I've never used sparknotes/cliffnotes in college. It would be pretty hard to sparknote your way through an organic chemistry or neuroscience cIass (besides, I don't think they do sparknotes for science textbooks). That said I did use sparknotes back in my AP Literature cIass in high school as a way to review, and now that I think about it I did read some summaries for the first four chapters of Origin of Species for my evolutionary biology cIass when I had to write a synopsis for said four chapters (for the record Darwin was a very round-about author. The guy liked to repeat the same thing a dozen times or so in slightly different ways each time, and as a result it can be hard to tell what the point of the first few chapters is since he doesn't reveal his theory of natural selection until chapter 4).
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