CONFESS is you ever wrote a "book report" from Cliffs Notes, book flaps, or a movie adaptation

[Amerigo Vespucci]

And you know damn well it's not a matter of "if."

It's a matter of how many of you are willing to ADMIT IT.



:evilgrin:

[rug]

1. Several

[mitchum]

2. I've written them based on half-remembered and wasted conversations

[graywarrior]

3. High school

Still got an A. I can't believe my teacher didn't know.

[Minimus]

4. Apparently it is a matter of "is"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Yes, like a lot of other things in life.

:rofl:

[Strong Atheist]

5. No, never. Never even cracked one. nt.

[Kali]

6. never used cliff notes, didn't even know what they were until college

but I'm sure I used book flaps/skimming in grade school. Shit, we had to do one every week and while I loved to read and often got in trouble for reading in class (WTF?) - the books I liked were not always the books we got assigned.

That kind of "cheating" to accomplish busy work is probably actually highly adaptive and a decent skill, if you ask me.

[JTG of the PRB]

7. Nope. Not once.

Not because I didn't want to, but because I didn't really have the cash to buy the Cliffs Notes of a book every time I was feeling too lazy to read it.

Besides, those college books were damn expensive. I made sure to read every word I was assigned.

[conscious evolution]

9. Book flaps

But always inside quotation marks and attributed in the footnotes.

My sister and her friends would take obscure songs of bands they like and turn them in as poetry they had written.
The school wanted to enter one of her friends "poems" in a nationwide contest.The school officials could not believe it when she declined.
They thought she had serious talent as a poet.:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

10. Worse

Fabricated a physics lab report from the equations for diffraction gratings.

Added random noise, and bias from misaligned instruments.

This because I had to miss lab that day.

I have never worked so hard, or learned so much...

I got an A.

[Orrex]

11. I completely made a research paper in my senior year of high school

Not exactly a weighty subject, but I made up eight sources, complete with bogus publication info.

Of course, these days such a ruse would be easily exploded, but in 1988 I guess it just wasn't worth it for my teacher to hunt down every student's sources.

[Pool Hall Ace]

12. Unfortunately no. I didn't learn about Monarch Notes or Cliffs Notes

until fairly late in the game. Otherwise, I certainly would have utilized them! :rofl:

[crim son]

13. I never did.

Once upon a time I was a serious student.

[hedgehog]

14. Never did that, but I once wrote a report on a very thick biography

that I'd only read the first 30 pages of by noting how much detail the author had dug up!

[MajorChode]

15. Never, but I did completely fabricate a book that I reported

[RebelOne]

16. When I was in school Cliff Notes did not exist. n/t

[femmocrat]

17. Ha! We used to use "Classics" comic books!

Does anyone remember those?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

25. Yeah, but the biggest problem with those was the fact that...

...ALL of the teachers I knew had read them too.



:rofl:

[doc03]

31. I made a book report from a Classic Comic

I think it was on Dracula.

[triguy46]

18. I thought that was expected. Was I to do more than rewrite others ideas?

[Broken_Hero]

19. Honestly, none....

A bud of mine during Sophomore year did a book report based off a mini story to a game for the Sega Genesis(can't recall which game).

I'm an avid reader, and never used cliff notes...

[Hayabusa]

20. Heh

I based an art event critique on sketches others got at a comic book convention. TO be fair, they were original sketches and I did explain why I considered Mouse Guard art...

[Broken_Hero]

21. That reminds me when I argued with my 7th grade

english teacher that Comic Books were literature...I lost the argument big time, but I was 13 and I still contend that I was right. :D

[Hayabusa]

22. I would have said "read Watchmen"

I got a B. Probably for "Ballsy."

[tigereye]

23. no - that would have been sacrilege

If you don't want to read the book, don't take the course. (English major here)

[tilsammans]

24. Do "Reader's Digest Condensed Books" count?

I remember doing that once, back in the day.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. My mom had a WALL full of those

Biggest collection of Reader's Digest Condensed Books I'd ever seen. She had wall-to-wall book shelves in the living room and her collection filled two room-length shelves.

[realisticphish]

27. Never. Mainly because I've never written a book report

well, I suppose that my AP English class in high school technically utilized "book reports," but those were 8-10 page papers after in-depth class discussion.

And I placed out of English 100 in undergrad. My other English course was actually a "second writing course" in my major, which was pretty much a bunch of papers about social psychology.

[billyoc]

28. Impossible. The nuns were hip to all that, you had to have references from the full text.

[joey5150]

29. never.

but im a fast redr and can crank out the words double quick when im caffinated. also ive always been involved with sport so my time was limited-- i had to be a disiplnd student to get decent grades or end up with the class dopes. average = yuck! A's are way more fun.

[jmm]

30. I've never done it but I know numerous incidences of people getting caught.

My senior year in high school several people in my English class got busted for watching the 1990 film version of Lord of the Flies instead of reading the book. I know of one person who was really obvious and referred to glow sticks in his paper.

I also know of people busted for buying papers online. A professor in college once told me of catching over 20 people using the same paper. The saddest part about that was she said it wasn't really that good of a paper.

[annonymous]

32. I only did it once.

I couldn't get through Wuthering Heights and resorted to Cliff Notes in order to complete the book report. My brother did it a few times and got caught.