CliffsNotes for Romeo and Juliet

CliffsNotes (often, incorrectly, CliffNotes) are a series of student study guides available primarily in the United States. The guides present and explain literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Endorsers say the guides help readers understand complex works, while detractors say they let students avoid even reading them. CliffnotesRomeoAndJulietCover. ... CliffnotesRomeoAndJulietCover. ... For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ... Study guides are student tools used to help facilitate learning and comprehension of literature, research topics, history, and other subjects. ... Polish soldiers reading a German leaflet during the Warsaw Uprising A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). ...

CliffsNotes was started by a Nebraska native named Clifton Hillegass in 1958. He was working in a bookstore when he met the owner of a series of Canadian study guides called Coles Notes, who suggested that Hillegass create an American version. Hillegass started with booklets covering 16 William Shakespeare titles, with the first being Hamlet; CliffsNotes now exist on hundreds of works. The term CliffsNotes has now come into modern usage, as a noun for notes of a similar nature to the original CliffsNotes books. For other uses, see Nebraska (disambiguation). ... Clifton K. Hillegass (1918-2001), born in Rising City, Nebraska was publisher and founder of Cliffs Notes. ... Jan. ... A bookstore. ... Coles is a Canadian bookstore chain. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... In linguistics, a noun or noun substantive is a lexical category which is defined in terms of how its members combine with other grammatical kinds of expressions. ...

CliffsNotes have a reputation among students as a shortcut to studying the actual literature, some would argue to the point of cheating. CliffsNotes themselves contain a disclaimer to students about the dangers of depriving themselves of the proper education experience of solely using CliffsNotes without studying the actual literature involved. In fact the optimum method of usage for CliffsNotes would be to read a chapter or segment of the actual literature first, and then read the CliffsNotes version of that same chapter or segment, for review. Cheat redirects here. ...

John Wiley & Sons, a publisher of scientific and technical publications, bought CliffsNotes in 2001 from IDG Books. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... IDG (International Data Group) is a publisher of magazines which focus on information technology. ...

Other guides

In addition to guides for literature, the company produces several other series of guides, including:

• CliffsQuickReview - a quick reference for information on many scholastic subjects, such as sciences, mathematics, and history.

See also

• SparkNotes
• York Notes
• Monarch Notes

SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, and Chris Coyne in 1999 that provides free in-depth commentary, analysis and study guides for literature, poetry, history, film and philosophy. ... A recent edition of York Notes Advanced for Shakespeares Hamlet York Notes are a series of educational study guides sold in the United Kingdom. ...

External links

• CliffsNotes website