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Reading a SparkNote instead of reading a book is misusing a SparkNote. Those of us who write SparkNotes love the books that we write about, and we want you to read them as well!
- The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby - SparkNotes: Help
- Othello
Othello - SparkNotes: Help
- Lord of The Flies
Lord of The Flies - SparkNotes: Help
- The Great Gatsby
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- MLA List the author of the guide. Start your MLA "Works Cited" entry with the name of the author. For SparkNotes guides, the author is considered "SparkNotes Editors."
- APA Start your full reference entry with the name of the group author. The SparkNotes editors are considered a group author. While APA typically only uses first initials, this is not the case with group authors.
- Chicago List the SparkNotes editors as the group author. A full bibliographic citation in Chicago style begins with the name of the author. For a SparkNotes guide, use the group editor provided rather than a specific name.
Reading the Spark Notes "no fear literature" instead of the book? Here is a link to it, pretty much it is the book The Scarlet Letter translated in more modern understandable terms and simplified. Think it is a good idea to read this instead of the books?
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- The Chicago Manual of Style
In MLA style, in-text citations are done in the parenthetical format, which means that you’ll include relevant information about your source in parenthesis at the end of a sentence. An in-text MLA citation for an online source follows the below format: For the quote we listed above, you would write the citation like this: To help your teacher ident...
In APA style, in-text citations should come right after the title, word, or phrase to which they’re referring (instead of appearing at the end of the sentence), and they should always precede punctuation marks. An in-text APA citation for an online source follows the below format: For the quote we listed above, you would write the citation like thi...
This citation style can be tricky, so don’t hesitate to ask your teacher if you have any questions! When you’re citing a source within the text, the Chicago Manual of Style requires the use of notes(footnotes or endnotes), instead of parenthetical citations. To create an in-text citation, put a superscript number immediately following the content y...
But Silence instead disempowers the lived experience of the antagonist, casting them as "just looking for attention." The book wants it both ways, undermining it own credibility rather than providing a subversion of the trope. "They can't be trans because they are a murderer" is the ultimate argument the book tries to, but fails, to make.
SparkNotes are meant to help you understand literature—not as a substitute for it. Reading a SparkNote instead of reading a book is misusing a SparkNote. Those of us who write SparkNotes love the books that we write about, and we want you to read them as well! Why is reading a book better?
The best assignment we had was to read a classical book of our choice. So I read pride and prejudice which is the book I read the most to date along with twilight (I shamefully read the first book 4-6 times in two languages as as teenagers, don't remember anymore). Some of the books though I hated. Like to kill a mocking bird.
