Case (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
case) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomsecrets2014-12-03 06:00 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-12-03 06:00 pm
[ SECRET POST #2892 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2892 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
01.
__________________________________________________
02.
[Brendon Urie, Panic! at the Disco]
__________________________________________________
03.
[Legend of Korra]
__________________________________________________
04.
[Natalie Dormer]
__________________________________________________
05.
(CE3K)
__________________________________________________
06.
[Kiefer Sutherland, The Lost Boys]
__________________________________________________
07.
[Diego Luna/The Book of Life]
__________________________________________________
08.
[British comedian Jon Richardson, 8 out of 10 Cats]
__________________________________________________
09.
[BBC Robin Hood]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #413.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
Re: Is Spark/Cliffs Notes always cheating?
Re: Is Spark/Cliffs Notes always cheating?
(Anonymous) 2014-12-04 12:13 am (UTC)(link)Lord, yes. I got through about a third of Last of the Mohicans, said "screw this", and used Wikipedia and SparkNotes for the rest of that section of class. And given that I got a 94% on the essay, I must have at least looked like I'd read the book.
Re: Is Spark/Cliffs Notes always cheating?
(Anonymous) 2014-12-04 12:19 am (UTC)(link)Re: Is Spark/Cliffs Notes always cheating?
Re: Is Spark/Cliffs Notes always cheating?
(Anonymous) 2014-12-04 12:35 am (UTC)(link)...where did I say that I felt proud of this? Also, have you ever tried to read Last of the Mohicans? There is infinitely better classic literature out there (what I assume you mean by "real book"). Lots of "real books" can get more than a few pages into a chapter before bogging down in description and redundancy.
And while I realize this is petty, I'm seriously amused by the fact that you're calling me stupid for not reading the whole book, and yet you yourself cannot correctly capitalize and punctuate a single sentence.
Re: Is Spark/Cliffs Notes always cheating?
Re: Is Spark/Cliffs Notes always cheating?
(Anonymous) 2014-12-04 12:21 am (UTC)(link)But I agree. I guess I didn't say this as clearly as I would've liked in the previous comment, but I think reading all the Sparknotes before you read the book (or without reading the book) - not only Summary, but Symbolism, Themes, whatever sections they have - does deprive you of the chance to go in fresh to a text and make your own conclusions. I don't think it's bad, per se, but you do miss out on that opportunity. So in that sense, if a teacher is trying to encourage students to come up with their own original interpretations, that would be sort of "cheating".
but just using a summary as sort of a guide as you read a confusing, older book, I don't see the problem at all. Especially considering a lot of classics have somewhat famous plots and it's unlikely you'll go into one of those books with absolutely no idea what's going to happen beforehand anyway.
Re: Is Spark/Cliffs Notes always cheating?